To manage vehicular air pollution within the nationwide capital, the Delhi authorities has began sending notices to automobile homeowners who had been driving and not using a legitimate Air pollution Beneath Management certificates (PUCC). The federal government has requested them both to get a legitimate PUCC or else face a heavy penalty. Presently, over 17 lakh automobiles, together with 13 lakh two-wheelers and three lakh automobiles, are plying with out legitimate PUC, they mentioned.
“Now we have despatched SMSes to just about 14 lakh automobile homeowners asking them to get a legitimate PUC telling them that if they don’t get it executed in time, they should face heavy penalties. The air pollution season is approaching inside two-three months and we now have to make sure that we scale back vehicular air pollution to some extent. Warning folks to get a legitimate PUC is a step in that path,” mentioned an official.
The official added that there’s a authorized provision for exempting these automobiles that aren’t plying on roads. “As an illustration, a retired Military colonel has written to the Transport Division saying that his son is overseas and his automobile is standing of their storage. So in fact, the automobiles that aren’t plying on the roads aren’t required to get PUC, however automobiles discovered plying on the roads and not using a legitimate PUC might be prosecuted,” he added.
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If caught and not using a legitimate PUC certificates, automobile homeowners could face imprisonment of as much as six months or a nice of as much as Rs 10,000 or each as per the Motor Car Act.
In accordance with Central Motor Automobiles Guidelines, 1989, each motorcar (together with these conforming to BS-I/ BS-II/ BS-III/BS-IV together with these plying on CNG/LPG) is required to hold a legitimate PUC certificates after the expiry of the interval of 1 yr from the date of its first registration.
Nevertheless, the validity of four-wheeled BS-IV compliant automobiles is one yr and for different automobiles, it’s three months. PUC certification has been made real-time and built-in with the automobile registration database.
This has improved the credibility of PUC certification by lowering human intervention and helps in figuring out polluting automobiles for crucial punitive motion, officers mentioned. Final yr, because of strict enforcement of PUC norms by the Transport division, over 60 lakh certificates had been issued, officers mentioned.
Automobiles are periodically examined for his or her emission requirements for varied pollution reminiscent of carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2) after which they’re given PUC certificates.
There are over 900 air pollution checking facilities authorised by the transport division in Delhi. These are arrange at petrol pumps and workshops unfold all around the metropolis so motorists can get it executed simply. The payment for air pollution checking in case of petrol and CNG-driven two and three-wheelers is Rs 60. It’s Rs 80 for four-wheeled automobiles and Rs 100 for diesel automobiles.
(With inputs from PTI)