new delhi the delhi government is going to ask ecommerce companies food delivery services and cab aggregators to completely switch to electric vehicles and petrol pumps to not give fuel to vehicles without a pollutionundercheck puc certificate officials said vehicle emissions account for around 38 per cent of the citys air pollution the government is going to take two majors steps to check vehicular pollution we will ask all aggregators including zomato swiggy ola uber etc to completely switch to electric vehicles these services account for 30 per cent of the registered vehicles in delhi an official told pti we are also considering directing dealers and petrol pumps not to supply fuel to vehicles without puc certificate he said directions under the environment protection act in this regard are expected to be issued this week asked if a deadline will be given to aggregators to switch to evs a senior official in the transport department said it will be done in phased manner we will soon publish the draft guidelines the delhi electric vehicles policy introduced in august 2020 aims at increasing the ev share in total vehicle sales to 25 percent by 2024 only flipkart by 2030 and fedex by 2040 have established worldwide targets for converting their lastmile delivery fleets to electric vehicles while dhl has set a 60 per cent electrification target for its fleet in october the city government launched a massive drive to check puc certificates and deployed around 500 teams at petrol pumps for this purpose under the section 1902 of the motor vehicle act 1993 vehicle owners not having a valid puc can be fined up to rs 10000 or imprisoned for up to six months or both the owners are required to get test their vehicles tested to ascertain if they meet emission standards for pollutants such as carbon monoxide nitrous oxides carbon dioxide there are around 1000 authorised pollution checking centres set up at petrol pumps and workshops in the city also in compliance with the national green tribunals directions the delhi government will deregister all diesel vehicles which will complete 10 years on january 1 2022 and issue a no objection certificate noc so that they can be reregistered in other places however no noc will be issued for diesel vehicles which have completed 15 years or more on the date of applying for it according to an order issued earlier this month delhi is the mostpolluted capital in the world and is one of the fastest expanding cities in terms of population according to swiss air technology company iqair according to a study conducted by the automotive research association of india and the energy and resources institute in 2018 vehicles contribute to about 40 percent of pm 25 emissions in delhi