No new diesel vehicles to be registered in Delhi

Zee Media Bureau

New Dehli: National Green Tribunal (NGT) which has been constantly expressing serious concerns on growing pollution menace in the national capital on Friday said that no new diesel vehicles will be registered in Delhi.

NGT has directed Centre and state government not to buy any diesel vehicles for their departments.

It may be noted that in its biggest of the proposed measures, the Delhi Government led by Arvind Kejriwal has recently said that vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will be allowed on alternate days from January 01, 2016.

The urgent action was necessitated after quality of air in Delhi, going through one of its worst smog spells this season, largely fell in the 'very poor' category as per the National Air Quality Index.