Allow more auto rickshaws on roads
Allow more auto rickshaws on roads
New Delhi,7 December: With the Delhi government planning to restrict the movement of private vehicles, an auto rickshaw union demanded an immediate decision on around 18,000 applications to allow more autorickshaws on roads. At present, around 80,000 autorickshaws are plying across the national Capital. The Delhi government’s Transport Department is yet to take a decision on around 18,000 applications, which is pending for seven months, to issue new permits for allowing more new autorickshaws on the city’s roads,said Rajendra Soni, Delhi Autorickshaw Sangh’s general secretary. In a radical step, the Arvind Kejriwal government has announced that private vehicles bearing odd and even registration numbers will be allowed to ply only on alternate days starting January 1 next year. After the government’s even-odd formula, there will be a huge crowd of passengers on roads. As the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and cluster buses don’t have sufficient numbers, the government should allow pending applications for new permits, he said.Soni said auto unions will support the government’s even-odd formula if it agrees to issue more permits so that new autorickshaws could come on roads to meet the rush.
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