Delhi government writes to CAQM, seeks pause on fuel ban for old vehicles stating technical issues

New Delhi, July 03, 2025 (ANI): Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa wrote to the Commission for Air Quality Management to place on hold the direction which mandates the denial of fuel to End-of-Life (EOL) vehicles in Delhi. "We have informed them that the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras that were installed are not a robust system, and there are still many challenges with them. Technical glitches, non-working sensors, and malfunctioning speakers, all these challenges are there. It has not been integrated with the NCR data yet. It is not able to identify HSRP plates. We also said that such a law has not been implemented in Gurgaon, Faridabad and Ghaziabad and the rest of NCR till now", he said in a statement.