Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s formidable scheme for combating air pollution throughout the winter season is about to make a comeback as soon as once more. Whereas the Delhi authorities has expressed a need to implement the scheme from November 13 for every week, the proposal is on maintain as of now after the Supreme Court docket questioned the transfer. The Supreme Court docket questioned the Delhi Authorities’s determination to impose the odd-even scheme for personal autos in Delhi tering the odd-even as ‘all optics’.
In the meantime, a survey by the Native Circle has revealed {that a} majority of Delhites are usually not in favour of the scheme. The 2023 survey requested Delhi NCR residents whether or not they help the Odd-Even scheme. “Out of 10,644 respondents, 36% or round one-third said ‘sure’ and 64% said ‘no’. To sum up, 64% of Delhi NCR residents surveyed don’t help the introduction of Odd-Even car rule as an answer to air air pollution,” revealed the survey.
The respondents shared their issues concerning the scheme as properly. “The largest group of 56% indicated that ‘two-wheelers’, which account for a lot of autos on the highway, shouldn’t be exempt; 44% opposed exemption to ‘ladies drivers alone or with little one as much as 12 years of age’; 44% indicated ‘autos with individual/s with bodily disabilities’; 33% indicated ‘non-public autos with faculty kids in uniform (solely throughout faculty timings)’; 22% indicated ‘electrical autos’ and 22% of respondents indicated ‘different exemptions not listed above’. To sum up, 56% of Delhi-NCR residents surveyed are against 1 or extra exemptions in Odd-Even car rule implementation,” mentioned the survey.
First applied by the Kejriwal-led authorities in 2016, the odd-even rule, which permits non-public four-wheelers to be pushed solely on alternate days based on the final digit of their quantity plate, had restricted influence primarily as a result of many exemptions. Odd and Even system for personal vehicles in 2016 for 2 weeks had led to inconvenience for a lot of, some even shopping for a brand new car and lots of discovering car-pool companions to journey to their office. Whereas it led to smoother visitors, the influence on air pollution was marginal.
The survey obtained over 21,000 responses from residents of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram & Faridabad. 63% of respondents have been males whereas 37% of respondents have been ladies.
