BS-I, BS-II oil tankers can’t enter Delhi from today, orders green tribunal

The National Green Tribunal on Thursday asked oil companies to immediately stop use of BS-I and BS-II vehicles to transport petrol or petroleum products into Delhi.

The Bharat Stage or BS norms are standards for vehicular emissions with BS-I and II suggesting the earliest generation of emission norms while BS-IV stands for the latest of these norms.

Hundreds of old BS-I and BS-II tankers presently operate on Delhi roads.

A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar on Thursday gave this order to Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum, who have to immediately ban such vehicles from their fleet.

The green court has also Delhi Police to ensure the compliance of the order. However, traffic police said they are yet to receive the NGT order