‘Treat Pradhyumn’s murder accused as an adult’

The father of Pradhyumn Thakur, the eight-year-old who was murdered on school premises a few weeks back, on Wednesday filed a petition in the juvenile justice board seeking the trial of the 16-year-old accused as an adult, saying his crime was “chilling, horrific, monstrous and serious in nature”. HTC The central government will advance by two years the rollout of next-generation BS VI fuels for Delhi, aiming to curb zooming pollution levels in the capital city.

The petroleum ministry said the Bharat Stage (BS) VI fuels will come into effect from April 1 next in view of the “serious pollution levels in Delhi and adjoining areas”.

“This measure is expected to help mitigate the problem of air pollution in the national capital territory (NCT) of Delhi and surrounding areas,” the petroleum ministry said in a statement.

The government has also asked oil manufacturing companies to study feasibility of providing the cleaner fuels to the entire National Capital Region (NCR), which includes parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, by April, 2019.

The major change will be in the limit for sulphur in fuels. It was 100 ppm under BS III, halved to 50 ppm under BS IV and under BS VI it will be 10 PPM. BS IV vehicles can run on BS VI fuels.

The rollout for BS VI emission norms is April 2020. BS emission standards regulate the output of air toxic particles from motor

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“This measure is expected to help mitigate the problem of air pollution in the national capital and surrounding areas” Petroleum ministry

vehicles, identified as the biggest polluters in the city of 16 million.

Every winter over the past few years, Delhi has struggled with a notoriously foul air, triggered mainly by vehicular pollution and aggravated by crop residue burning in neighbouring states such as Punjab and Haryana.

Last week, the government closed down schools as the city was engulfed in a thick layer of foul air, which chief minister

Rollout for BS VI vehicles is April 2020

Arvind Kejriwal described as a “gas chamber”.

Last year, India decided to leapfrog from the current BS IV norms to BS VI starting April 2020, to comply with the Paris agreement that aims to reduce global carbon emission.

The decision is expected to increase prices of all vehicles – small cars, sports utility vehicles (SUVs), trucks and buses.