Delhi govt’s ban on non-BS 6 vehicles from other states: NCR, interrupted; Day-2 of border troubles & tempers

Commuters faced disruption for a second day as Delhi enforced a ban on non-BS 6 vehicles from other states.

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Noida: Amit Kumar could not go back to Faridabad. Sachin Kumar could not return home to Dehradun. Manish Tripathi was told driving on the route he has been taking every day for years would incur a ₹10,000 fine.

It was a second day of arguments and confusion at the capital’s borders, where police continued to enforce Delhi govt’s ban on non-BS 6 vehicles from other states, interrupting daily commutes and derailing another workday.

Traffic =at the Kalindi Kunj, Chilla, DND and Ghazipur borders was, visibly lower on Friday compared to Thursday, when ban was first implemented and led to jams, possibly because some took the work-from-home option and some switched to metro.But at borders where lakhs of vehicles travel between Delhi and NCR daily, it still left a very high number of troubled commuters as cops scanned numbers of each car and then asked for papers. At DND Flyway, cops stood near the toll plaza, stopping vehicles for inspection. “We are entering registration numbers into a mobile app to verify emission standards,” a traffic cop said.