Carmakers such as Mercedes and Toyota on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to lift the ban on fresh registration of diesel vehicles above 2000 cc in the NCR region and instead consider imposing a 1% or higher cess on all such registrations in the future.
This has hurt these two car majors. Toyota's money-spinner the Innova, widely used as a taxi, has been hardest hit by the ban. The court had also asked all taxi aggregators to also become CNG compliant.
During the court of proceedings on Kejriwal government's demand to partially relax the ban to allow ambulances to be registered in the city, lawyer for the two carmakers Vishwanath Shetty urged the court to vacate the ban and instead impose a 1% cess.
Carmakers have suggested that 1% cess could be collected from the buyers. They are also open to sharing the burden of cess with the buyers in case a higher cess is imposed. Automakers have argued the ban was irrational as it kept older vehicles on the road while keeping new Euro IV ones off the road.
A bench, comprising CJI TS Thakur and Justices AK Sikri and R Banumathi, said it would hear their plea on July 4, but asked the manufacturers to suggest ways to check vehicular pollution in the city. The top court had banned registration of diesel vehicles above 2000 cc in and around Delhi in December, 2015.
This has hurt these two car majors. Toyota's money-spinner the Innova, widely used as a taxi, has been hardest hit by the ban. The court had also asked all taxi aggregators to also become CNG compliant.
During the court of proceedings on Kejriwal government's demand to partially relax the ban to allow ambulances to be registered in the city, lawyer for the two carmakers Vishwanath Shetty urged the court to vacate the ban and instead impose a 1% cess.
Carmakers have suggested that 1% cess could be collected from the buyers. They are also open to sharing the burden of cess with the buyers in case a higher cess is imposed. Automakers have argued the ban was irrational as it kept older vehicles on the road while keeping new Euro IV ones off the road.
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