the move comes in response to the rising air pollution levels that have spiralled out the administrations control pushing the city into a health emergency gurugram overcrowded and noisy threewheeler autos which contribute significantly in making the citys air toxic will no longer ply on city roads as the regional transport authority declared a crackdown on around 20000 diesel autos from january 1according to rta officials they will be initially launching an awareness campaign where drivers will be asked to voluntarily discard the use of their vehicles the citywide crackdown will be initiated later on to ensure no such autos ply on city roads these autos have always been on our radar but the need to take them off the road is more pronounced now these autos are a major source of air pollution which is why the supreme court has ordered that they should be banned we are following those directives noted rta secretary and additional deputy commissioner raza advt the move comes in response to the rising air pollution levels that have spiralled out the administrations control pushing the city into a health emergency from banning construction and demolition works to issuing health advisory officials are making desperate attempts to solve the crisis and banning the dieseloperated threewheelers is in line with these attempts which were recently reviewed by cm manohar lal khattar through a video conferenceraza further noted that the department will initially launch an awareness drive so that autodrivers are not antagonised during this drive rta and administration officials will interact with drivers at places like petrol pumps metro stations and their associations to ensure a smooth transitionwell start with identifying such vehicles and then engage with them the idea is to encourage them to adopt environmentfriendly alternatives like cng autos he addedwhile banning of diesel autos is a welcome move there are some concerns over the availability of affordable public transport in the city there are over 40000 autos of which around 20000 are dieseloperated these diesel autos mostly ferry passengers on a shared basis and cost much less than buses and cng autos not surprisingly they have become the most preferred mode of transport especially for the economically weaker section advt travelling in these autos from udyog vihar to sikanderpur costs only rs 10 if we take cng autos then itll take nothing less than rs 100 so if they are banning these shared autos then there should be an alternative for us too complained manoj a factory worker in udyog viharapart from these autos the rta will also tighten the noose around those running makeshift threewheelers these vehicles which are made by assembling different auto parts not only cause air pollution but also compromise road safety read alsosharp fall in diesel demand consumption down 33 in septemberpetrol diesel vehicles to be banned on select gaya roads by siddharth tiwari tnn published on nov 15 2019 at 0131 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments