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Three Wheelers
Business as usual
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2009
Vehicles more than 15 years old and two-stroke auto rickshaws continue to ply on Kolkata streets. This is despite the high court setting August 1
as the deadline to get such vehicles off the Kolkata Metropolitan Area and the Supreme Court upholding the high court order (see 'Four stroke
LPG autos only', Down To Earth, July 15, 2009). The court directive, however, was not implemented except in core Kolkata, which is
about one-tenth of the metropolitan area. Initially, the banned vehicles avoided major thoroughfares but now the situation is almost back to
Four stroke LPG autos only
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
Unlikely little Amsterdam
Right off the drawing board Photographer Aparna Pallavi Nanded is trying out a pedestrian haven along European linesUpdate
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2009
The Calcutta High Court will now monitor implementation of phasing out two-stroke autorickshaws in the city. It has asked the state government to submit action taken reports every 15 days to the court.
"Given the inability, for whatever reasons, of the state government to implement the order passed on July 18, 2008, it would be necessary for this court to monitor further progress with regard to the implementation of the said scheme at frequent intervals," the division bench said.
2-stroke defiance
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Two-stroke autos ply in Kolkata despite court ban
A COURT directive to stop polluting two stroke autorickshaws from plying on Kolkata roads has been rendered ineffective by the state government.
Taken for a ride
Issue Date: May 31, 2003
once again the government has dithered from introducing clean technologies. The Union budget fails to provide a clear road map to promote electric vehicles (evs), especially three-wheelers. It offers sops to make any car cheap, but wilfully ignores the need to extend special fiscal support to evs.
The CNG imperative
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2001
CSE Pollution Load Model
CSE estimated the actual impact of moving public vehicles to cng fuel on the air pollution load of Delhi.
Tata Energy Research Institute In service of polluters
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2001
It isn't just the ministries that are misinforming the public about cng and ensuring the non-implementation of the Supreme Court order on cng. The Tata Energy Research Institute (teri), a New Delhi-based energy consultancy, has also contributed to such efforts. The teri -industry nexus is strangulating adoption of cng .
Missing the bus
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2001
