New Delhi: No diesel cabs will be allowed to run in Delhi and other parts of national capital region from Sunday with the Supreme Court refusing to extend the deadline.
A plea for extension by diesel taxi owners, who told the apex court that there is no technology to convert diesel vehicles to CNG mode, was dismissed on saturday.
Earlier, the court had shifted the deadline from April 1 to May 1. Here are the highlights of the court decision.
# Supreme Court declines to extend the deadline for diesel cabs to convert to CNG mode
# Diesel taxi owners had approached SC seeking extension of the deadline
# Diesel cab owners told SC there is no technology that converts a diesel car to CNG mode
# Earlier SC had set April 1 as deadline for diesel cabs to move to CNG mode
# A 30 day extension was given to cab owners and by May 1 all diesel cabs had to convert to CNG
# SC on Saturday refused to further extend the deadline
# However, cabs with All India Permit do not have to convert
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