From the archive record
Commercial vehicles entering Delhi will now have to pay more, with the National Green Tribunal imposing an “environmental compensation charge” over and above the municipal toll tax. The green panel ordered that the compensation would be payable at the rates of Rs 700 for two-axle vehicles, Rs 1,000 for three-axle and Rs 500 for four-axle and above. Taking note of the large number of vehicles entering Delhi everyday, a four-member bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar on Wednesday held that harsh measures were needed to ensure that “non-destined vehicles” passing through Delhi to other areas, would be kept out of the city. “It will be in our considered view, appropriate to direct the check-posts to charge transport heavy vehicles entering Delhi as their final destination or en route to ot