Over 1.25 Lakh Old Vehicles To Be Deregistered From Noida To Check Pollution

The district transport department has started a campaign to phase out such vehicles and has begun contacting their owners from October 1.

UP government in its order said, that there are 34 districts with better air quality and such vehicles could be transferred after the issuance of a NOC. ( Image Source :Getty )

New Delhi: In compliance with a National Green Tribunal's order, over 1.25 lakh old vehicles registered in Gautam Buddh Nagar will be taken off the roads. According to PTI, diesel and petrol vehicles older than 10 and 15 years, respectively, will be deregistered in NCR. 

Following the Uttar Pradesh government's orders, the district transport department has started a campaign to phase out such vehicles and has begun contacting their owners from October 1, officials told PTI. 

Assistant Regional Transport Officer (ARTO) Siyaram Verma was quoted by PTI as saying, "These vehicles will either be scrapped or a no-objection certificate (NOC) issued for their usage so that they could be used in some select districts that do not fall under NCR."

Meanwhile, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Ganesh Saha told PTI that the police department, on its part, was also carrying out stricter checks and penalising old vehicles found plying on the roads.

Further, the UP government in its order said, that there are 34 districts with better air quality and such vehicles could be transferred after the issuance of a NOC from their respective regional transport offices. The 34 districts where old vehicles from NCR can be transferred include -- Etawah, Sant Kabir Nagar, Ambedkar Nagar, Kushinagar, Farrukhabad, Jaunpur, Kannauj, Ballia, Sultanpur, Ghazipur. 

According to PTI, Gautam Buddh Nagar had 8,26,110 registered vehicles, including 94,299 diesel and 7,31,811 petrol, as on October 1, the transport department data shows. 

Of the total, 1,34,073 vehicles, nearly 15 per cent  will have to be deregistered in compliance with the green tribunal rules and the state government order, the data showed. These include 25,238 diesel and 1,08,835 petrol-run vehicles, PTI reported. 

Uttar Pradesh government said the order to deregister old vehicles by the green tribunal's 2016 guideline will be complied with effectively and without default.

"All the vehicles which are deregistered in Delhi/NCR would not be permitted to ply in Delhi/NCR. However, the authorities will issue NOC for such vehicles to be registered outside Delhi/NCR. We further clarify that in terms of the orders of the tribunal, every state has to identify areas where the dispersion of the air is higher and vehicular density is least," the state government, as reported by PTI.

"The diesel vehicles which are more than 15 years old and are BS-I (Bharat Stage) or BS-II compliant shall be scrapped and no NOC will be issued for the transfer of the vehicles," it added.