New Delhi – Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises has failed to prove that the use of 10 year old vehicles will not be harmful to the health of people said green panel. It also said that a report of the pollution monitoring body has declared that one new diesel car is equivalent to 24 petrol and 84 new CNG cars on road.
A decade old diesel vehicles will now have to go off the roads with the National Green Tribunal declining to lift its ban on them in Delhi-NCR, noting that emissions from diesel vehicles were carcinogenic.