Months After Launch, Govt Plans To Intensify Drive
New Delhi: The transport department

New Delhi:Many auto unions decided to call off their plan to go on strike after a meeting with transport minister Arvinder Singh on Thursday evening.

New Delhi: Commuters can expect some tough times ahead with the autorickshaw unions threatening to go on strike from Thursday night and the government refusing to change its stance.

Yet another deadline to convert some 60,000 two-stroke rickshaws into four-stroke plying on the roads of the province to make them environment-friendly is about to over by the end of June this year.

Government is over-charging for the gadget: Petitioners
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed a Delhi Government notification for installation of GPS in auto-rickshaws and demanding Rs.15,000 from their owners as installation cost.

Justice Indermeet Kaur stayed the notification on a petition by about 200 auto-owners, submitting that the Government was over-charging for the gadget as the same

The banned two-stroke autorickshaws are out in strength in New Town, the only mode of easily available, cheap public transport in a township crying out for basic amenities.

More than 700 two-stroke autos, most running on a lethal mix of polluting fuels called katatel, ply on the 15km main arterial road in Rajarhat, with police turning a blind eye to the violation of the high court ban to avoid

With citizens and government bodies looking to promote bicycles, a city-based engineer has claimed to have invented a solar-motor pedi-cab, (a tricycle of sorts) that could potentially replace the traditional auto rickshaw.

Chunabhatti-based PK Pillai has now sent the designs to IIT-Bombay for comments are looking for funding to promote the model commercially.

The solar powered version of th

A pioneering program by one of the world's largest cities to switch its vehicle fleet to clean fuel has not significantly improved harmful vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles

Two years ago when Irfan Alam, a young IIM graduate, started the Sammaan Foundation in Bihar that helped people get bank loans for buying rickshaws and thereby, earn a living, it was hailed as a revolution. From the initial 100 people, today there are a few lakh beneficiaries of Alam

There will be no cap on the number of cycle-rickshaws plying on the Capital

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