Kejriwal Govt on Acid Test for Toxic Air Control ; Odd &Even numbered vehicles to ply on alternate days from Jan 1,2016
( Informatively,Beijing has issued its first ever red alert for smog on Monday ,asking schools to close down and slapping restrictions on factories and curtailing city's vehicle's fleet to half. Reading of PM2.5 particles shot up to 300 micro grams per cubic per meter on Monday vis-a vis-the World Health Organisation (WHO) standard of tiny and poisonous particles at 25.)
The state government headed by Arvind Kejrwai will have to work in tandem with Union Government as police machinery has to be involved in a big way,and any hotchpotch may result into street fights among commuters if they spot “wrong vehicles on the wrong day”. Every one will come under a scanner.
The slate
for running of Vehicles of odd and even number of vehicles has been announced
but no concrete action plan – as to how it will be implemented in the most populous
and sprawling national capital- which has more than 90 Lakh vehicles and 1500
new cars add up to the city’s car fleet every day is unfolded so far. Tens of thounsands number of cars enter the
capital every day from neighboring cities,many of them carrying patients.
The
government must be leap into 24x7 action to ensure adequate number of
government buses on streets .whether such a big fleet is available at its disposal – is a big
question. Millions of people virtually jostle each other in various areas to
catch the buses and board metro trains.
The Metro department has to increase
frequency of its service during peak
office timings –both in morning and evening.
If the scheme is implemented successfully, it
will certainly mitigate air pollution across the capital and many other big
cities which also reel under such poor
air quality-like Kolkata, Mumbai,Gwalior, Raipur, Kanpur may implement same. It might be a blessing in
guise as it will certainly increase usage of the public transport in many ways
and state governments would not be left
with any option other than improving the public transport.
Right now,Public transport is not available in
far flunged areas and bus stands spectacle is really pathetic.
The Public
transport is in shambles in majority of cities as burgeoning population of
private vehicles had reduced its utility at least for upper middle classes.
As per the
plan,Odd-numbered vehicles will be allowed to ply on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday while even-numbered vehicles will run on the other days - Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
The state
government’s assertion that they don’t care which car belongs to whom has raised many questions whether the formula will apply to the senior bureaucrats private
vehicles too.
It is
certain that 2016 is all set to start with lot of confusion as central government employees,
who come by their own cars to meet, deadlines of timings on biometric attendance
machines,are at loss about the morning hours chaos.
Emergency
vehicles like PCR van, fire tenders, ambulances on the roads of the national
capital. As per the schedule, even-odd formula would also be applicable on
all ministers and bureaucrats in Delhi.
The Kejrwail government has advised
people to send their suggestions on pollutionfreedelhi@gmail.com.
In next
step,the government will also check rampant
use of generators by companies in the capital. In a breather,The Government has
assured that the scheme would be dropped
in 10-15 days if people faced problems.
PHOTO BY NEERAJ BAJPAI IN KOLKATA
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