Strict action will be taken against fuel stations that donate the instructions under relevant legal provisions | Photocredit: Ani
All vehicles at the end of the lifespan (EOL) diesel vehicles older than 10 years and gasoline vehicles older than 15 years on the states in which they are registered will not receive fuel in Delhi from 1 July, the Air Quality Management (CAQM) committee has said.
The CAQM issued instructions to fuel stations in April and said that from 1 July no EOL vehicle should be given.
A total of 500 of the 520 fuel stations in Delhi has installed automated cameras of the number plate recognition (ANPR) and the rest will be covered before 30 June.
These cameras will detect vehicles older than 10 years (diesel) or 15 years (gasoline) and a warning will be sounded to the command center and enforcement teams consisting of officials of traffic and transport department that take the vehicles.
This mechanism will be rolled out in five districts with high vehicles that border Delhi, including Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar and Sonipat, from November 1 this year, with the installation of ANPR cameras that will be completed before 31 October.
The remaining NCR districts gave time until March 31, 2026 to install the cameras, with fuel denial for EOL vehicles from 1 April 2026.
“Our instructions do not say that only EOL vehicles registered in Delhi are detected and fuel is refused. Vehicles that are registered outside Delhi-NCR also float on Delhi roads and contribute to pollution. If (Delhi) people register their vehicles outside … they have to be detected.
EOL buses that are registered everywhere in India are detected via this mechanism. However, separate instructions will be given to curb their movement in Delhi-NCR, he said.
Sharma said that 100 enforcement teams consisting of officials of traffic and transport departments were set up.
Strict action will be taken against fuel stations that have found the instructions under relevant legal provisions, he said.
The CAQM shared that there are 62 Lakh EOL vehicles in Delhi, of which 41 are Lakh two-wheelers. The number of EOL vehicles throughout the NCR is around 44 Lakh and these are largely concentrated in the five cities with a high density.
According to Sharma, the ANPR cameras, linked to the Vahan database, old vehicles or those without valid pollution certificates, will identify.
He said that fuel stations should refuse fuel for such vehicles from the specified data and that the authorities must immediately take legal steps, including seized and delete, under the rules of the registered vehicle Scrapping Facility (RVSF). There is also an option to obtain a NOC to take overage vehicles outside of Delhi and to use them there.
The instructions come in the midst of poor progress in removing old, polluting vehicles from the NCR, despite earlier orders from the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal.
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Published on June 21, 2025
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