Summary:
In September, the department had said only 18% of the taxis in Delhi have functional GPS devices. Delhi government had made functional GPS mandatory in autos and taxis in 2009. Currently, all public vehicles, including buses and gramin sewas, must have GPS devices.In January 2018, the department had set up a control centre, from where all public service vehicles can be tracked through GPS. However, the department’s data reveals that only 29% of these vehicles, including school buses and vans, have GPS devices that can be tracked. Though the autos plying in Delhi are CNG-run, most of the 84,000 autos in the rest of NCR run on diesel.EPCA discussed conversion of all three-wheelers in the capital to BS-VI before the 2020 deadline..