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The Supreme Court on Tuesday banned the order banning 10-year-old diesel and 15-year-old petrol vehicles in Delhi-NCR. The court said that the next hearing will be held four weeks later. Till then action should not be taken against any vehicle owner on the basis of being an old vehicle.
The order was given by the bench of CJI BR Gawai, Vinod Chandran of Justice and Justice NV Anjaria. The Delhi government was advocated by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta in this case. It was requested to give relief from banning old vehicles.
Delhi government announced a new rule in March
On March 1, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa had said that petrol and diesel will not be given to 15 years and more than July. The Delhi government has taken this step to control air pollution.
He had said that we are putting gadgets on petrol pumps which will identify vehicles older than 15 years. Petrol and diesel will not be given to such vehicles.
What does air quality index mean?
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a type of tool that measures how clean and clean the air is. With the help of this, we can also guess what harm can be caused to our health from the air polutants present in it.
AQI mainly measures the concentration of 5 general air polutants. It contains ground level ozone, particle pollution, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. You must have seen AQI on your mobile phone or news usually in 80, 102, 184, 250 in these numbers. What these digits mean, see in graphic.