Cars In Delhi-NCR Will Have To Sport Coloured Stickers From Oct, EVs To Get Green Number Plates

As part of its pollution reduction efforts and easy implementation of odd-even scheme in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR), the Supreme Court has approved the plan for hologram-based colour-coded stickers that would indicate the nature of the vehicle -- petrol, electric, hybrid, diesel or BS-VI compliant.

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The diesel vehicles plying in Delhi will have to paste orange stickers on their windshield, while petrol and CNG vehicles will have to carry blue stickers. The court also asked the ministry to consider having green number plates for electric and hybrid vehicles. The stickers will also have year of manufacturing of vehicles that will help authorities to spot vehicles that are not allowed to enter in Delhi.

The SC bench comprising justices S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta asked the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to implement the use of coloured stickers on vehicles plying in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) by September 30.

The stickers will help the enforcement agencies to identify whether a vehicle is running on petrol or diesel. The agencies were finding it difficult to identify the vehicles as the diesel vehicles of more than 10 years and petrol ones of more than 15 years are not allowed to enter in Delhi.

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The apex court is hearing a petition on air pollution in Delhi-NCR and had asked for suggestion to control pollution in the city. On July 23, the amicus curie advocate Aparajita Singh had suggested the bench that colour-coded stickers could be pasted on vehicles to give an indication of the nature of vehicle.

The amicus had said that such stickers, as used in Paris, would be more effective then having the "odd-even" vehicle rotation scheme in Delhi and it would also help in identifying older vehicles.