The Supreme Court’s ban on commercial diesel vehicles in Delhi is hitting taxi drivers and the transport business hard. The issue really became drawing conversation in the national capital after major highways, including the DND flyway that connects Delhi to Noida were blocked by protesting drivers.
Their complaints are fairly simple. If you had to ban these cars, why were they being sold and registered as recently as 28 April? Will the government return all the money it had accrued through sales tax and charging for commercial driving licences?
Drivers, many of them immigrants, are contemplating leaving the city. Their main question was if diesel is so bad, why are private cars running on the fuel still on the road? After all, over 90 percent of diesel vehicles are private ones.
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