Will Kolkata succeed in phasing out two-stroke autos by July end?
two-stroke and non-lpg (liquefied petroleum gas) four-stroke autorickshaw will not be allowed to ply in Kolkata from August 1, the Calcutta High Court has ordered. The city has around 38,000 registered two-stroke autorickshaws running on petrol; 30,000 of them are illegal. With six weeks left for the deadline, 20,000 applications were in for replacing two-stroke engines with lpg four-stroke, and 1,600 were replaced, said Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, leader of the Auto Bachao Committee in Kolkata.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/four-stroke-lpg-autos-only
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/priyanka-chandola
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution-control
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vehicular-pollution
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/lpg
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/petrol
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/three-wheelers
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/high-court
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/calcutta-t
