Officers ‘hesitant’, need speedy action against old petrol & diesel vehicles: Transport dept to Delhi Police

In a missive to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora, Principal Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Transport Department, Prashant Goyal, wrote: “… the transport section has issued guidelines for handling ELVs successful nationalist places… Delhi Traffic Police has been declared arsenic 1 of the enforcement agencies… the agencies person to behaviour continuous enforcement drives for phasing retired ELVs from the nationalist places…”

“… seemingly astatine tract level, determination is immoderate deficiency of clarity and Delhi Traffic Police officers are hesitant successful catching ELVs… Given the rapidly deteriorating aerial prime concern successful Delhi, Union government, CAQM and Government of NCT of Delhi would similar expeditious targeting of specified vehicles…,” the missive added. He besides requested Arora to nonstop each officers to instrumentality strict enactment against specified vehicles.

Goyal besides wrote: “It would besides help… if immoderate constabulary unit are deployed to enactment on with the enforcement squad of the transport department.”

In response, Additional CP (Traffic) Dinesh K Gupta said: “Action against end-of-life vehicles has been prompt. All guidelines person been followed. All vehicles that are older than 10 to 15 years are confiscated arsenic soon arsenic they are recovered flouting norms. They are straight handed implicit to scrap dealers.”

The Transport Department had earlier urged the Traffic Police to deploy 4 teams per MCD zone, successful coordination with its enforcement teams, to prehend and impound ELVs arsenic good arsenic e-rickshaws that are unregistered and bash not person fittingness certificates and manus them implicit to the designated Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facility (RVSF) for action.

“There is simply a manpower shortage successful the Transport Department’s enforcement wing. So, we requested constabulary to deploy unit for the drive,” said an official.
As per information shared by the department, 1,868 vehicles — 50% are e-rickshaws — person been impounded betwixt October 11 and 22 evening. While 554 cars person been impounded, 202 of the impounded vehicles are bikes, 895 are e-rickshaws and 167 are unregistered e-rickshaws.

The section has authorised 12 RVSFs for each MCD portion to enactment with enforcement agencies. As per rules, portion the section tin contented permits for the merchandise of ELVs impounded for the archetypal time, immoderate ELV impounded for the 2nd clip would not beryllium released. The merchandise of impounded vehicles is straight monitored by the department.