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  • Plea In SC Against Delhi Govt’s Guidelines For Handling End-Of-Life Vehicles. auto news

    Delhi Govt’s Guidelines For Handling End-Of-Life Vehicles: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi government’s fresh guidelines for handling end-of-life vehicles in public places. The plea filed by Nagalaxmi Laxmi Narayan has contended that retrospective application of the Guidelines for Handling End of Life Vehicle in Public Place, 2024 is arbitrary.

    “The retrospective application of the guidelines to vehicles is arbitrary, violates the applicant’s legitimate expectation, and deprives the applicant of their right to property under Article 300A of the Constitution,” the plea has contended.

    It said the scrapping rules are being applied without due consideration of the condition of vehicles and the actual emissions they made.

    The Delhi government had in February issued fresh guidelines for handling end-of-life vehicles in public places, stipulating a penalty of Rs 10,000 for four-wheelers and Rs 5,000 for two-wheelers to be imposed on the owners of the vehicles impounded before they are released.

    According to the guidelines, continuous enforcement drives should be conducted to phase out such vehicles from public places in the national capital and daily reports sent to the environment department for onward submission to the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM).

    The government has classified the release procedure for impounded vehicles under two categories — those who wish to shift their vehicle out of Delhi-NCR and those who wish to park the vehicle in private spaces which are not shared parking places.

    “On plying and parking of ELVs (end-of-life vehicles) in public place in NCT of Delhi, once impounded for the first time it can be released on the basis of submission of an undertaking that vehicle will not be plied or parked in any public place within the territory of Delhi and will be removed from the city…,” the guidelines read.

    “In case of 4-wheeler, a penalty of Rs 10,000 along with towing charge and parking fee as notified in Delhi Maintenance and Management of Parking Places Rules, 2019, shall be charged before releasing of such ELVs. In case of 2-wheeler, a penalty of Rs 5,000 along with towing charge and parking fee as notified in Parking Rules 2019 shall be charged…,” it said.

    According to the guidelines, any end-of-life vehicle impounded for a second time and transport vehicles running on diesel fuel and aged more than 10 years cannot be released.

    The application for the release of a vehicle along with necessary documents should be submitted within three weeks of impounding of the vehicle and an online platform will be developed for this purpose, it said.

    According to the guidelines, impounded vehicles will be scrapped in case of three scenarios — non-submission of application for release within three weeks of impounding of the vehicle, rejection of application submitted for release and impounding of the same vehicle for the second time.

    All scrap value shall be paid through digital mode only to the bank account in the name of the vehicle owner within 15 days of the vehicle being accepted by the Registered Vehicles Scrapping Facility, it added.

  • Overage Vehicles Found Parked In Public Spaces May Be Impounded: Delhi Govt | Auto News

    Overage Vehicles Policy In Delhi: Overage vehicles need to be parked in private spaces or be scrapped, the Delhi government said in a public notice on Thursday. Vehicles found parked in public places in violation of the guidelines may be impounded, the notice said.

    Reiterating its guidelines for overage vehicles issued this February, the transport department said there is a complete prohibition on parking overage vehicles in areas just outside residences, which are considered public places.

    “Keep such vehicles in private parking spaces owned by the individual, not in a shared parking space, even if it’s part of a residential complex. A parking space allotted to the owner within a residential complex is considered private,” it said.

    According to the notice, the Delhi government has deregistered 5.5 million overage vehicles. Owners of such vehicles have the option of obtaining a No Objection Certificate (NOC) to move the vehicle out of Delhi within one year of the vehicle’s expiry date, it said, adding that no NOC for the vehicle will be issued after one year of expiry of the vehicle.

    Another option for owners of overage vehicles is to scrap the vehicle through the Voluntary Vehicle Scrapping Application at ‘https://vscrap.Parivahan.Gov.In/’ at any nearby registered vehicle scrapping facility, it added.

    The notice said the enforcement wing of the transport department, New Delhi Municipal Council, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, and Traffic Police may impound such vehicles found parked in public places, even if an NOC has been issued but the vehicle has not been moved out of Delhi within one month of NOC issuance. Offenders may also be prosecuted as per the ‘Guidelines for Handling of End-of-Life Vehicles 2024’.

    In 2018, the Supreme Court banned diesel and petrol vehicles older than 10 and 15 years, respectively, in Delhi. It had added that the vehicles plying in violation of the order would be impounded. A 2014 order of the National Green Tribunal bars vehicles older than 15 years to be parked in public places.

  • Delhi Govt says Haryana has refused to release additional water |

    New Delhi: Amid the worsening water crisis in Delhi, the AAP government on Tuesday claimed that Haryana has expressed its inability to provide additional water to the national capital on humanitarian grounds.

    The BJP slammed the AAP dispensation, saying the Haryana government on Tuesday released data that showed it provided more than 17 per cent excess water to Delhi and claimed Water Minister Atishi was blaming the neighbouring state in a bid to hide her own flaw in addressing the issue of water shortage in the city.

    A Delhi government statement said its delegation solicited the release of additional water supplies on humanitarian grounds in a meeting with the Principal Secretary (Water Resources) of Haryana in Chandigarh.

    “Haryana government expressed its inability to release additional water to Delhi on humanitarian grounds,” it said.

    Atishi stressed the urgency of coordination to mitigate the current water emergency exacerbated by severe heat waves.

    The minister had last week requested Haryana to give additional water to Delhi on humanitarian grounds. The Upper Yamuna River Board had advised Delhi and Haryana to hold a bilateral meeting and consider whether Haryana could give extra water to Delhi, the statement said.

    Expressing disappointment, Atishi said that the “well-being of our citizens is at stake, and it is imperative that we receive this crucial support without delay”.

    Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva alleged that the “dirty politics” of AAP was responsible for the water crisis in the city.

    “Haryana government has today released data showing that they have provided more than 17 per cent excess water to Delhi,” he said and alleged that “lying with confidence is the hallmark of Aam Aadmi Party leaders”.

    Sachdeva said that water theft and leaking pipeline system, which should have been fixed over the past 10 years, remain unresolved while Atishi continues to blame Haryana and the BJP to hide her flaws.

  • Atishi declares order of appointing Delhi govt standing counsel on interim basis ‘invalid’

    NEW DELHI: Delhi Law Minister Atishi has declared as “invalid” an order issued by the principal secretary (Law) appointing another lawyer as standing counsel to represent Delhi government before the Delhi High Court on interim basis instead of standing counsel (civil) Santosh Kumar. Tripathi.

    The minister, in an order issued on February 15, said “Tripathi will continue to handle the responsibilities of standing counsel (civil), Delhi High Court, GNCTD”.

    A copy of the order has also been sent to the registrar general of the high court.Earlier this month, Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had said that government counsel have made “misleading” statements before the high court related to a report on the opening of Liquor vends in conforming and nonconforming wards while implementing the nowrescinded excise policy in the national capital, officials had said.

    Later on February 14, the principal secretary (Law) issued an order stating, “As an interim arrangement and to ensure proper representation of GNCTD of Delhi before Hon’ble High Court of Delhi, Shri Anupam Srivastava, Additional Standing Counsel (Civil) is hereby appointed Standing Counsel (Civil), Delhi High Court NCT of Delhi till further orders. He will perform all the duties of Standing Counsel (Civil), Delhi High Court, GNCT of Delhi and conduct the cases presently handled by Shri Santosh Kumar Tripathi. “

    Taking note of this, the next day Atishi issued an order saying that the principal secretary (Law) had issued the order on the directions of the LG and the Chief Secretary and the appointment of the standing counsel is a transferred subject and is a decision taken. by the Council of Ministers of the Delhi government.”Removal or appointment of a standing counsel (whether in a permanent or interim manner) is outside the, purview of the Hon’ble LG. Neither is this covered under the GNCTD Amendment Act 2023, ” she said in the order.”The impugned order has been issued by principal secretary (Law) without the approval of the minister incharge and is therefore without basis in law, and is in violation of Allocation of Business Rules, Transaction of Business Rules, GNCTD Act and Article 239AA of the Constitution. Therefore, the impugned order is ab initio null and void, and therefore declared invalid,” she said.

    The principal secretary (Law) on the instructions of LG, had also asked Tripathi not to appear on behalf of Delhi government before any court of law till further orders and till the decision is taken in the matter by the competent authority.

    A similar order was also issued to advocate Arun Panwar, who is also a panel counsel of Delhi government.

    Earlier, Raj Niwas officials had said the proposal of the Excise Commissioner to submit the report of the committee set up on the orders of the Delhi High Court regarding conforming and nonconforming wards to the court was moved for LG’s approval on. August 18, 2022.

    However, it was stalled by the then minister twice, officials had said.

    “All this while the government kept telling on record in HC, that the report was pending with LG. It prompted the court to request the LG thrice to clear the file for submission of the report expeditiously, despite the fact that the file was not with LG.

    “The proposal was cleared by Atishi (Delhi minister) who sent it for further recommendation to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who cleared it on January 16 this year and sent it to LG,” an official had said.

    In a file noting to Kejriwal, Saxena noted that the file relating to the approval of the report was received at the LG Secretariat on January 16 this year after a lapse of one year and five months since it was first moved for LG’s approval on August 18, 2022, the official had said.

    Saxena had noted in the file that the case is a “sad reflection on the manner in which the state government counsels made false and misleading statements” before the court, showing the Lieutenant Governor and his office in poor light in the eyes of the court.

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