Articles by: Ashish Bhatia

Low floor AC city bus for Noida

Low floor AC city bus for Noida

The wait for low floor air conditioned city bus service in Noida and Greater Noida will soon be over. If the officials of the state transport department are to be believed, a notification of the scheme will be out soon. After getting approvals from the regional transport department of Meerut, the file of the city bus service is known to[Read More…]

by July 5, 2016 News

Heavy vehicles under scanner at Kochi

Heavy vehicles without registration were pulled by Kochi’s Motor Vehicles Department (MVD). Several instances of vehicles being used at construction sites without registration were found. If this prompted the Kochi MVD to ramp up its checking, the officials drew attention to the law that binds the owner to register the vehicle within three months of purchase. With registration cost pegged[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News
Diesel cabs go off Delhi roads

Diesel cabs go off Delhi roads

With the Supreme Court allowing diesel taxi drivers in Delhi, with an ‘All India Permit’, valid upto five  years, to ply on the roads, diesel taxi drivers finally breathed a  sigh of relief. It was only days earlier that over 27,000 diesel  taxis including those of cab aggregators like Ola and Uber  vanished from Delhi’s roads. It was a Supreme[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News

Green highways?

Given the stress on upgrading fuel emission to near zero levels, work is all set to begin under the Green Highways policy announced in 2015, or it seems. At a consultation session held in April, organised by the Energy and Resource Institute of India, it was Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister, who claimed that work on Green[Read More…]

by July 4, 2016 News