Drive against pollution begins today
The Delhi state government has launched a drive to check pollution under control (PUC) certificates of all vehicles from July 1, 2002, while the traffic police will carry out a drive to enforce the new licence-plate norms.
While vehicle-owners not carrying PUC certificates will be fined Rs 1,000, the fine for improper licence plates will be Rs 100. Owners can get their emissions checked from any of 400 pollution checking centres in the city.
The PUC checking, announced by state transport minister Ajay Maken, is aimed at curbing the pollution caused by personal vehicles. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has two hi-tech pollution checking centres in the city. Delhi transport department, with technical help from SIAM, is expected to set up similar centres at 100 petrol pumps. Traffic police and schoolchildren will also be the partners in the transport department’s green initiative.
The traffic police expects anomalies in number plates, like stylised alphabets and numerals, multi-coloured plates, and several designs, will be done away with. The introduction of the new colour pattern and character size will ensure uniformity in all number plates.
Commercial vehicles changed to black numbers and alphabets on yellow backgrounds from February 1. The numbers and alphabets in both the rear and front of cars will have to be 65 mm in height and 10 mm in width, with 10 mm space between characters. The sizes are different for two-wheelers.
The colour pattern is likely to have a better impact on the prosecution of errant vehicles. A traffic police officer said that the offending vehicles speed away and the present colour pattern is hard to read at a distance. The new number plates will have better visibility.
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