Significantly high contribution from the transport sector to the overall air pollution load in the entire NCR, consistently throughout the year and more adversely during the winter season, needs no emphasis. Faster transition to efficient and cleaner mobility in Delhi-NCR is thus imperative.

Within the vehicular sector, commercial vehicles are significantly higher on emissions owing to extensive plying/ mileage and at times also attributable to overloading, poor maintenance etc.

Towards promotion of e-mobility in commercial vehicles registered in Delhi, the Transport Department, GNCTD notified Delhi Motor Vehicle Aggregator and Delivery Service Provider Scheme, 2023 for licensing and regulation of aggregators providing passenger transport services, delivery service of goods and commodities including through e-commerce entities in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi.

Other NCR States viz. Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan also need to formulate comprehensive Policies encompassing Motor Vehicle Aggregators, Delivery Service Providers and E-Commerce Entities for the entire NCR prioritizing the high vehicle density (HVD) cities of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad which besides intra-city requirements, also rely heavily upon inter-city movement of vehicles.

While zero emission vehicles like the Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) and other such clean technologies need to be targeted for clean mobility in the above services, there is, however, need for an urgent transition from conventional diesel/ petrol vehicles to cleaner modes of mobility.

Towards abatement of vehicular pollution and to facilitate faster transition to cleaner modes of mobility in Delhi – NCR, particularly in the sectors of Motor Vehicle Aggregators, Delivery Service Providers and E- Commerce Entities, the Commission has directed that:

The existing fleet of vehicles onboarded by these service providers can be continued for such services.

GNCTD and NCR State Governments have to ensure that all Motor Vehicle Aggregators / Delivery Service Providers / E-Commerce Entities under their jurisdiction comply with these Directions of the Commission.

For effective monitoring and implementation of the above Directions, Governments of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan have been directed to develop a web portal, as has already been developed by the Transport Department, GNCTD and NCR State Governments have to accord wide publicity to disseminate these Directions through media and other means.

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