The Gurugram site visitors police have initiated 24×7 car checks on the metropolis’s borders to curb the entry of prohibited automobiles and cut back air pollution as a part of the Graded Response Motion Plan (Grap), officers stated. The checks, which started on Saturday, will proceed indefinitely, specializing in barring Bharat Stage-III petrol and BS-IV diesel automobiles from getting into Gurugram and Delhi except compliant with emission norms, they added.
Visitors police information reveals that over 6,100 automobiles have been fined roughly ₹10 crore for violations, together with the operation of BS-III petrol, BS-IV diesel automobiles, and automobiles with expired air pollution certificates, between November 15 and December 2. (Parveen Kumar/HT Photograph)
In keeping with site visitors police, nakas and barricades have been arrange at Sirhaul border on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway, Panchgaon Chowk on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, Dundahera border on Outdated Delhi-Gurugram Highway, and close to Aaya Nagar border on MG Highway. Groups deployed at these places are working in three shifts to make sure round the clock enforcement, they added.
Visitors police information reveals that over 6,100 automobiles have been fined roughly ₹10 crore for violations, together with the operation of BS-III petrol, BS-IV diesel automobiles, and automobiles with expired air pollution certificates, between November 15 and Monday. Moreover, 10-year-old diesel and 15-year-old petrol automobiles caught throughout the checks have been completely impounded in compliance with Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal (NGT) orders, police stated.
Assistant commissioner of police (site visitors) Vikas Kumar stated the intensified measures. “The round-the-clock checking started on Saturday and will continue till further orders to comply with the GRAP for curbing pollution,” he stated. Kumar added that violators, notably drivers of prohibited automobiles, are being fined. These discovered driving BS-III petrol or BS-IV diesel automobiles are topic to penalties according to GRAP Stage-IV rules.
Prohibited automobiles not destined for Gurugram or Delhi are being redirected through alternate routes close to Panchgaon Chowk, minimising their influence on city air high quality. Haryana chief secretary Vivek Joshi, throughout a high-level assembly on November 20, directed officers to strictly implement car restrictions and droop building actions contributing to air pollution.
Conferences have been additionally held between Haryana and Delhi authorities, together with Delhi Visitors Police, Delhi authorities officers, the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD), and the transport division, to synchronise efforts, police stated. “Delhi police and government officials are also carrying out checks on their side of the border and issuing challans to violators amid severe pollution,” Kumar stated.