No pollution certificates for vehicles without high-security number plates

Vehicles not having high-security registration plates (HSRPs) and hologram-based coloured stickers will not be given pollution under-control (PUC) certificates in Haryana.

The office of the state Transport Commissioner has shot off a communique to all District Transport Officers-cum-Secretaries, Regional Transport Authorities (RTA), in this regard.

"You are accordingly directed to issue directions to all the pollution check centres functional in your respective jurisdiction immediately not to issue pollution under-control certificates to any vehicle not having HSRP/colour-coded sticker affixed," says the communique.

The Transport Commissioner said the DTOs were directed to ensure that the hologram-based coloured stickers were placed on the windscreen of the vehicles registered/plying in their jurisdiction, as per the order of the Supreme Court of India, and a special enforcement drive be launched in this regard.

As per the directions, all vehicles transport/non-transport found without HSRPs/colour-coded stickers had to be challaned and the report shared with the state office on a weekly basis.

"The operators of pollution-checking centres located in the district are being informed about the said orders and told to stop issuing certificates to such vehicles, failing which action will be taken against them," said Rohtak DTO-cum-RTA Secretary, Major Gayatri Ahlawat (retd).

As many as 22 of the 70 pollution-checking centres had been checked and notices issued to seven for non-compliance with norms, she added.

Meanwhile, at a meeting held through video-conferencing on Tuesday, the DTOs were directed to ensure that no vehicle without HSRP/colour-coded sticker is operating in their respective jurisdiction by carrying out intensive checking, failing which provisions of Section 14 of the Commission for Air Quality Management Act, 2021, may be invoked.