NEW DELHI:  , India’s top court on Friday ( Nov 22 ) ordered authorities in the smog-choked capital New Delhi to establish checkpoints on all 113 roads into the city to stop the entry of polluting vehicles.
More than 30 million people live in the traffic-clogged megacity, which has been covered in poisonous haze this quarter, with pollution amounts exceeding the WHO’s recommended monthly limit earlier this year.
The Delhi government has had a difficult time putting together a number of wholesale initiatives to address the nation’s annual public health issue in the winter.
Diesel-powered trucks and other business vehicles are now prohibited from entry, according to the Supreme Court, which is not being properly enforced.
” So far as conformity is concerned, we are never satisfied”, the judge said, according to the American legal information site Livelaw.
Just 13 of the 113 area entry points were guarded by officials, according to an official appointed by the court, which dismayed the bench.
” The proportion of waste caused by these cars is a very big percentage”, the court said. ” As far as passage of vehicles is concerned there is no execution”.