Bengaluru has overtaken Delhi as town with the very best variety of non-public automobiles in India.
In keeping with the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2023, launched by the state authorities final week, the variety of non-public automobiles registered in Delhi stood at 2.071 million models as on March 31 final 12 months, reflecting a 38.8 per cent drop since March 31, 2021.
The decline is a results of the Supreme Court docket’s resolution in October 2018 to ban diesel automobiles aged greater than 10 years and petrol automobiles older than 15 years in Delhi to cut back air pollution.
As on March 31 final 12 months, 2.233 million non-public automobiles have been registered in Bengaluru, which was a 7.1 per cent improve since March 31, 2021, in response to the Karnataka Transport Division’s information launched final 12 months.
“In the course of the interval of 2021-22, the variety of automobiles per thousand inhabitants in Delhi was 472, which was a drop from 655 in 2020-21 as a result of scrapping coverage of diesel and petrol automobiles,” said the Delhi authorities’s Financial Survey 2022-23 that was launched in March 2023.
“The whole variety of motor automobiles (together with non-public automobiles) on roads in Delhi in 2022 was 7.918 million, displaying a lower of 35.38 per cent as a result of the Delhi authorities has banned diesel automobiles of greater than 10 years previous and petrol automobiles of greater than 15 years previous. Therefore, the Delhi authorities has deregistered 4.877 million automobiles until 2021-22,” it added.
Delhi has been witnessing poor air high quality for a number of years, particularly round Diwali and within the winter season, and persistently figures among the many most polluted cities on the earth.
First Printed: Jan 14 2024 | 3:58 PM IST
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