A scene at one of the filling stations, as the Camera installed at filling station for tracking the 10-year-old Diesel and 15-year-old Petrol Vehicles, in New Delhi.
| Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
A Delhi Traffic Police officer on Saturday (July 5, 2025) said ‘end of life’ Vehicles (ELVs) are not being impounded at fuel stations in the national capital. This comes amid the Delhi government’s request to the Central government’s Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) to halt the drive against overage vehicles.
The pollution control body has not responded to the request yet.
“We have received orders to not impound any overage vehicle until further notice,” the traffic police officer told The Hindu.
Nischal Singhania, president of the Delhi Petrol Dealers Association, said there are no government teams on the ground implementing the ban over the last two days. “No announcements have been made over the speakers installed at the petrol pumps by the government either. Over the last few days, no vehicles have been impounded,” Mr. Singhania said, adding that the government is yet to officially convey whether the drive has been stopped or not.
The CAQM had mandated that from July 1, no fuel stations would provide petrol or diesel to ELVs in Delhi. The same would apply to the districts of Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budhha Nagar and Sonipat from November 1 and to the rest of NCR from April 1. Instead, they would be impounded based on automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera identification. Although the Delhi government had supported the directive, after facing public backlash, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Thursday said the anti-pollution measure could not be implemented due to “systemic challenges”.
Published – July 06, 2025 04:15 am IST
