Taking the Delhi Government to task on Monday, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said while the Government was active in imposing odd-even restrictions, it failed to implement the green bench’s order banning vehicles more than 15 years old from plying on the roads in the national Capital.
A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said, “You have done whatever you wanted to, this odd-even formula. When you are so active in odd-even, why don’t you take other orders in the same spirit... Why your police don’t do anything with regard to 15- year-old vehiclesIJ Why don’t you challan themIJ Why has police not taken any action in furtherance to orders passed by the tribunalIJ”
The green panel also slammed the Government over incidents of waste burning and dust pollution in the city, saying “we cannot allow you to generate methane and carbon all the time.”
“You were so active in odd-even, why don’t you do the same thing for dust pollution and burning of municipal solid waste. Why don’t you control waste burning and violations of norms by builders… Heaps of garbage is being burnt at various waste plants in the city. It is like burning mountain. We cannot allow you to generate methane and carbon all the time,” the Bench said.