Now, fitness certificates for 10-yr-old diesel vehicles in 10 NCR districts
Ravinder Saini
Tribune News Service
Rewari, September 6
After nine months, the state Transport Department has decided to issue fitness certificates to more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles registered in 10 districts under the NCR.
Fitness certificates to such vehicles was banned by the transport authority in all 13 NCR districts of the state in December 2015 in view of a National Green Tribunal’s order directing the state government to not issue fitness certificate to such vehicles in the region to reduce the level of pollution.
The 13 districts included in National Capital Region (NCR) are Gurgaon, Faridabad, Palwal, Mewat, Jhajjar, Rewari, Mahendragarh, Bhiwani, Jind, Rohtak, Sonepat, Panipat and Karnal. Except Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), Faridabad and Gurgaon, fitness certificate to more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles would now be issued in other districts.
The development came as a major relief to a large number of people having more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles, as they were unable to ply their vehicles due to the ban.
Virender Lather, Additional Transport Commissioner, said the fitness certificate to diesel vehicles older than 10 years was stopped in 13 districts of the state nine months ago following unclear orders of the NGT in this regard.
“Since the NGT had issued the order for the NCR, fitness certificate to such vehicles were stopped in 13 districts under the NCR, but the Assistant Advocate General, Haryana, recently cleared that the NGT meant the NCR as Gurgaon, Faridabad, Bahadurgarh (Jhajjar), Ghaziabad and Noida (UP) in terms of registration of vehicles,” said Lather.
He said, “Following the clarification, we have decided to issue fitness certificate to more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles in districts other than Bahaudrgarh, Gurgaon and Faridabad. The concerned district authorities have also been informed about the decision.”
Anil Kaushik, chief of the Progressive Private School Owners’ Association, said schools having diesel buses older than 10 years were worst suffered by the ban on fitness certificate.
