New Delhi: The “odd-even” curbs on private vehicles to improve air quality in the nation’s capital will continue at least till Monday when the Delhi High Court decides its fate, as the Aam Aadmi Party government claimed pollution levels had gone down in the week or so that it has been in force.
Delhi transport minister Gopal Rai said his government’s ambitious odd-even scheme will run its full trial period course till January 15, after which a final decision will be taken on formulating a policy to reduce pollution in the city.
Another bench of the High Court was told that app-based taxi services like Ola and Uber were charging a lot more than the rates mandated by the law, following which directions were issued to the government to file an affidavit on whether app-based taxi services were overcharging people.
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