GREEN PANEL ISSUES NOTICE TO PETROL FIRMS ON AIR POLLUTION
NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has issued notice to two public sector oil companies asking them whether they use any diesel vehicle, which is more than 10-years-old, while allowing the registration of new BS-IV compliant ones for transporting petrol or petroleum products.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar sought the response from Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and asked for their reply by January 9.
The direction came while hearing a batch of petitions filed by various contractors seeking registration of new BS-IV compliant diesel vehicles purchased for transport of petrol from company depots to identified petrol pumps in Delhi-NCR.
The contractors had moved NGT after the tribunal had last year passed an order banning the registration of new diesel vehicles as well as re-registration after 10 years.
Later, the Supreme Court had also banned registration of diesel-run SUVs and cars having engine capacity beyond 2000cc in Delhi and National Capital Region. Due to this, the transport department was not registering the newly procured vehicles, which conform to BS-IV norms and not re-registering the old vehicles, the plea had said.
The green panel had last week directed the applicants to file an affidavit stating that they do not own any diesel vehicle which is more than 10-years old and the new vehicles will not be used for “private purposes”.
“All these vehicles will be fitted with GPS system and log book shall be maintained. It will be certified that these vehicles are BS-IV compliant before the registering authority.
Surpur said feedback on stress-relieving activities such as yoga, meditation sessions, fun-day activity, music, motivational speeches and others can be elicited in the groups for later application.
Every year Kota attracts around 1.5 lakh students aspiring to crack various entrance exams to professional courses and top institutes of the country. There are more than half a dozen big coaching institutes and around 35 small and medium ones in the city.
He said state-sponsored sanctuaries for terrorists exist in Pakistan, a charge constantly raised by India.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley, who chaired the ministerial meeting in the absence of ailing foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, said the declaration strongly called for “concerted regional and international cooperation to ensure elimination of terrorism, in all its forms and manifestations, including dismantling of terrorist sanctuaries and safe havens in the Heart of Asia region, as well as disrupting all financial, tactical and logistical support for terrorism”.
He termed terrorism as a centre-stage issue at the Heart of Asia conference.
“There is also a need to neither differentiate between good and bad terrorists, nor to play one group against the other,” Jaitley said.
The mention of Pakistanbased militant outfits is an Indian diplomatic victory over its hostile neighbour, accused of using terrorism as an instrument of foreign policy.
Efforts to include names of Lashkar and Jaish in the Goa Declaration of the October Brics summit had failed after China allegedly scuttled the move.
New Delhi alleges that Lashkar and Jaish have been enjoying support from the Pakistani establishment and its agencies and were being used as tools to disrupt peace in India. Pakistan denies the charges.
New Delhi has found support from a regional grouping to isolate Islamabad on terrorism.
India led other regional nations in pulling out of this November’s scheduled SAARC Summit in Islamabad in protest against a militant attack on an army base in Kashmir’s Uri that left 19 soldiers dead.
Ghani and Modi held bilateral talks before the start of the conference on Sunday, discussing a range of issues, including trade and investment, defence and infrastructure.
“Specific initiatives in this regard, including the IndiaIran-Afghanistan Trilateral Agreement on developing Chabahar were acknowledged,” Jaitely said.
(With agency inputs)
Three out of the four PAN numbers were originally in Ajmer, which were migrated to Mumbai in September, where the declarations were filed.
The other declaration was filed by one Maheshkumar Champaklal Shah, a resident Jodhpur Gram Satellite, Ahmedabad, for an amount of `13,860 crore.
Shah, who declared the unaccounted for income before going “missing” and then surfacing on TV on Saturday, faced questions from taxmen through the night before being allowed to leave for a day on Sunday.
Police, meanwhile, provided security cover for Shah’s family. Appearing on Gujarati ETV channel on Saturday, Shah had said he feared for himself and his family’s security, while claiming he was just a face for the unaccounted money and it belonged to others.
The Ahmedabad-based realtor was picked up from the TV studio by police in the presence of I-T department officials.
THE NGT LAST WEEK DIRECTED APPLICANTS TO FILE AN AFFIDAVIT STATING THEY DO NOT OWN DIESEL VEHICLE MORE THAN 10 YRS OLD