Mumbai air pollution: To handle Mumbai’s worsening air high quality, the Maharashtra authorities has arrange a seven-member panel to discover the potential for banning petrol and diesel automobiles and permitting solely CNG and electrical automobiles within the Mumbai Metropolitan Area (MMR).
The transfer got here after the Bombay Excessive Courtroom famous that vehicular emissions are a significant supply of air air pollution and that the present measures to manage the variety of automobiles and air pollution in Mumbai are proving insufficient.
Whereas listening to a suo motu (by itself) public curiosity litigation on January 9, the Excessive Courtroom expressed severe issues over visitors congestion and rising air pollution in Mumbai metropolis and their destructive affect on the standard of life, surroundings, and total sustainability.
Emphasising the necessity for a radical examine to be performed on whether or not it might be “acceptable or possible to section out diesel and petrol-driven automobiles”, the Bombay Excessive Courtroom mentioned that vehicles choking Mumbai’s roads had been a significant contributor to town’s worsening air high quality.
As directed by the HC, the panel headed by retired IAS officer Sudhir Kumar Shrivastava will examine and submit a report with its suggestions inside three months.
Apart from Sudhir Kumar Shrivastava, different members embrace Maharashtra’s transport commissioner, Mumbai’s joint police commissioner (visitors), managing director of the Mahanagar Gasoline Restricted, mission supervisor of the Maharashtra State Energy Distribution Firm Restricted (Mahavitaran), president of the Society of Indian Car Producers (SIAM), and joint transport commissioner (enforcement-1) as member secretary.
The panel is empowered to incorporate specialists within the subject as fellow members and get suggestions from them.
Mumbai air pollution: 48 lakh automobiles registered at 4 RTO workplaces in Mumbai
A complete of 48 lakh automobiles have been registered at 4 RTO workplaces in Mumbai, whereas greater than 2 lakh new automobiles, together with two-wheelers and automobiles, hit the roads yearly.
Out of two.54 lakh automobiles registered at these 4 RTOs in 2024, 66,873 automobiles had been registered at Tardeo RTO (MH01), 66,692 at Wadala RTO (MH 03), 64,766 at Borivali RTO (MH 47), and 55,967 at Andheri RTO (MH 02), as per information.
