Delhi plans to give subsidies for purchase of bicycles for clean environment

Encouraged by the response to its odd-even strategy on vehicles to curb pollution and have a clean environment, the government of Delhi is planning to give subsidy for purchase of bicycle. While seeking to promote cycling in the national capital, Delhi government has indicated that it will provide subsidy on purchase of cycles - the money collected as challans during the odd-even scheme's implementation period would be used to finance the scheme.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 9 January 2016.

Transport Minister Gopal Rai has indicated that once the car-rationing pilot plan is wrapped up, the government will constitute a committee to work out further modalities of the this proposed idea of bicycle subsidies.
He has also said that there are no cycle tracks on main roads in Delhi. However, the government appeals to people to use bicycles wherever possible -like in their colonies and mohallas where they can easily ride them and where the possibility of road accidents are also less.
Instead of using motor bikes and scooters, people could go in for using bicycles for their small household works like buying milk or local shopping.
It may be recalled that in order to cut down air pollution in the city, the Arvind Kejriwal-led government has implemented a 15-day-long odd-even scheme, which has come into force on January 1.

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Delhi embraces odd-even formula to breathe fresh air

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This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 4 January 2016.

The Delhi Traffic Police have issued about 200 challans in the morning office hours and, DTC buses and Delhi Metro witnessed usual flow of passengers during peak office hours. It is obvious that people preferred car-pooling and auto-rickshaws to reach their destinations.
It is now four days that this system has been introduced and, the odd-even scheme for vehicular movement faced its real test when the city witnessed maximum traffic during office hours. In this connection it needs to be noted that most of Delhi's traffic has been off-road since January 1 due to weekend and New Year holidays and, the odd-even vehicular restriction policy of the Delhi government had come into effect on January 1. Thousands of volunteers took to the streets to assist traffic police in enforcing the pilot plan that will stay in force till January 15.

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Delhi odd-even - DTC had 4,120 buses on the roads as against 3,800 on other days

Reluctance to change is a global phenomenon and, the decision of Delhi to go in for odd-even strategy to reduce the number of vehicles on the road and, thereby, reduce and contain pollution is viewed with skepticism. However, on the first day of the modification, DTC had put 4,120 buses on the roads as against 3,800 on other days and carried four million passengers.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 2 January 2015.

Since it was the day of the exercise, DTC buses were in great demand on Day One of the odd-even road-rationing experiment in Delhi. Delhi Metro, however, did not record any substantial jump in its ridership. These two operators Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) are expected to carry the major share of additional commuters during the 15-day-long road-rationing experiment.
The restrictions apply from 8 AM to 8 PM from Monday to Saturday.
In the morning, DTC had 4,120 buses on roads while in the evening shift there were 4,063 buses - normally, 3,700 ply during this period.
Moreover, 'DTC Parayavaran Bus Sewa', under which 3,000 private buses have been given special permits for plying during the 15-day-period of the pilot plan, also carried passengers. Under this scheme, 1,226 private buses ('DTC Parayavaran Bus Sewa') were on he roads in the morning and evening shifts.

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Schools in Delhi to be closed from Jan 1 to Jan 15 to control pollution

Delhi government has decided to keep schools in Delhi closed for 15 days with effect from Jan 1 during which time the odd-even system would be tried out to reduce pollution in the capital. As per information, all schools in the national capital will be closed from January 1 to January 15 next year in order to avoid any problems to the students in view of the implementation of odd-even system for cars and other vehicle during this period of time.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 12 December 2015.

As Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has said children are most affected due to rising pollution and government will make a policy of odd-even formula with their involvement.
There is a winter holiday in all government and private schools from December last week to the first week of January every year and, in case the Education Department declares holidays for 15 days between January 1 and 15, the studies of students will not be affected.
He also added that since children are the largest stakeholder with 26 lakh of them studying in schools, it is necessary that the policy of odd-even formula be made with their involvement. While everyone is affected by te rising pollution, children are the most affected and that is a matter of concern.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has held a high-level meeting with all his cabinet ministers, concerned departments and agencies in order to prepare a strategy for implementing the odd-even scheme.

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