It refers to report of Supreme Court appointed Environmental Pollution and Control Authority EPCA suggesting that as many as 77-percent vehicles in Delhi out of total about 70 lakhs vehicles are plying without pollution-check. Problem can and should be easily tackled to a large extent by by making it compulsory for all registered automobile-workshops to install machines to provide pollution-checking-certificates. It may be made mandatory for each automobile workshop to compulsory check pollution of every vehicle each time vehicle goes to the automobile-workshop. Rather such pollution-checking-service and certificate can be provided free-of-cost by automobile-workshops because it is not very costly. Presently if a vehicle fails in pollution-checking at pollution-checking-centre, then it has to be first taken to some automobile-workshop, and then again driven to pollution-checking-centre with cycle repeated till vehicle passes pollution-checking test. Already many Maruti-workshops are providing such service at their service-centres, a service which should be made compulsory for service-centres of all automobile-companies. It will avoid corruption at some pollution-checking-centres which issue certificates to vehicles passed pollution-check after charging extra money than the prescribed fees by Transport Department. National Green Tribunal should also look into the practical suggestion to effectively check pollution caused by vehicles.
MADHU AGRAWAL