Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Light duty vehicles would have to pay Rs 700 and three-axle vehicles Rs 1,300 for entering Delhi in addition to the toll tax from November 1, with the Supreme Court today imposing the ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ in a bid to check high pollution levels in the city. The apex court’s …
Big trucks entering Delhi will have to pay Rs 1,300 and smaller commercial vehicles Rs 700 with the Supreme Court today ordering an experimental pollution compensation charge from November 1. The court directed the Delhi government to impose the fee, which will be in addition to the standard toll tax …
Beginning November 1, trucks, light goods vehicles and heavy containers passing through Delhi will have to pay `700 or `1,300 (depending on the category of vehicle) as the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Delhi Government to collect the amount as a pollution tax on an experimental basis till February …
Heavy Vehicles To Pay `Environment Compensation Charge' At Toll Booths In a move to check high level of air pollution in the capital, the Supreme Court on Monday formally imposed Environment Compensation Charge on vehicles entering Delhi from November 1. Heavy trucks would have to pay Rs 1,300 and light …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government may have welcomed the Supreme Court's order to levy a pollution fee on non-destined commercial vehicles going through the state, but officials admit that implementation by this November may be difficult. As per the SC order, commercial vehicles will be levied a pollution fee between Rs …
Charges on vehicles entering Delhi operative for four months on experimental basis, says Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Monday ordered imposition of ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ to the tune of Rs 700 on light duty vehicles and Rs 1,300 for three-axle vehicles and above, entering Delhi from November 1. A bench …
A single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work, environmentalists feel. Simply keeping cars off roads for half a day won't matter in the fight against pollution - but stopping trucks and diesel vehicles would. "Taking into consideration the emission numbers, a car-free …
A single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work, environmentalists feel. Simply keeping cars off roads for half a day won't matter in the fight against pollution - but stopping trucks and diesel vehicles would. "Taking into consideration the emission numbers, a car-free …
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed that the environment compensation charge, worth Rs 700 from 2-axle vehicles and Rs 1300 for 3 axle and above, to be collected by toll operators at nine entry points in the city from Nov 1. In its detailed order, a bench, headed …
Diesel exhaust is a known lung carcinogen. Farmers use a variety of dieselized equipment and thus may be at increased risk of lung cancer, but farm exposures such as endotoxins may also be protective for lung cancer. The researchers evaluated the relative risk of incident lung cancer, including histological subtype, …
A day after dna reported that for the first time the civic body had notified 'silence zones', identifying over 1,500 locations across the city, activists have urged the BMC to map these zones. The notification was issued by the BMC's environment department last week, following a rap from the National …
Moved by a compelling picture drawn by three toddlers about children’s everyday struggle to survive Delhi’s poisonous air, the Supreme Court on Thursday stepped in to help them. A bench led by Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu asked the Centre and the Delhi government to respond to the infants’ …
They fight bitterly to outsmart each other in politics but in the Supreme Court on Thursday, the governments led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and by Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi were on the same page on imposition of hefty fee on polluting trucks passing through Delhi. Solicitor …
A day after the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order asking trucks to pay a pollution cess to enter Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday took it to the next level asking the Centre and the Delhi Government to suggest on Friday how to implement the collection and utilisation of the …
After Gurgaon, it should be Noida's turn to start a car-free day or so think the green-activists of Noida. Members of NGO, Social Action for Forests and Environment (SAFE), headed by environmental activist Vikrant Tongad has sent letters to Gautam Budh Nagar's district administration, Uttar Pradesh pollution control board, Noida …
The bench, however, took note of the order passed by the NGT, putting additional tax burden on polluting trucks, and wondered if it still needs to adjudicate this issue. A day after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) imposed an additional tax burden on polluting trucks entering the capital, both the …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 09/10/2015. The issue relates to steps to be taken to check pollution by commercial traffic travelling from North India towards Jaipur and onwards via Delhi.
The Centre and the AAP government in Delhi will jointly tell the Supreme Court on Thursday that they are in favour of stiff charges being levied on thousands of trucks that lumber through the Capital every day, contributing to high levels of air pollution and congestion on roads. Environment and …
A study released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) India has pointed out that the estimate by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) — about the number of trucks entering the capital in a given period — is seriously flawed. Based on the findings of a survey conducted …
The Delhi government, it emerged at a meeting chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday, ‘did not have a stance’ on regulating thousands of heavy commercial vehicles, which have been polluting the air over the last 13 years. Organised in the wake of a Supreme Court directive that …
