| This move to decongest the city will take effect from September 1 this year. The order covers all three-wheeler goods carriers on any fuel mode, i.e. diesel, petrol, compressed natural gas, and liquefied natural gas. |
| P R Meena, joint commissioner, operations (transport department), said the order covered only goods carriers and would not include three-wheeler passenger carriers. |
| About 50,000 three-wheeler goods carriers are already on Delhi's roads and these would continue to run. Meena said the Supreme Court had last year given clearance for the registration of 5,000 more three-wheeler passenger vehicles in Delhi. Hence, the government does not propose to curb the registration of three-wheeler passenger carriers. |
| Bajaj Auto's general manager (three-wheeler sales), C K Rao, said this order would hardly affect the company, whose sales are concentrated in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Kerala. |
| "Delhi is not our market. Sales of three-wheeler goods carriers there are dominated by government-owned Scooters India Ltd. Hence, this move is not a cause for concern." |
| Industry sources said this order was in contradiction of other plans of the Delhi government. A source in the automobile industry said, "This order comes when the transport department is planning to restrict the entry of heavy transport vehicles not meant for Delhi, into Delhi. Further, the government intends to disallow large diesel goods carriers into the city." |
| The plan is to stop all heavy goods carriers outside Delhi and move the goods into the city in smaller CNG vehicles. The cost of intra-city transportation is expected to increase substantially due the restrictions caused by these policies. |
| According to the NCT transport department, the number of light goods carriers in the capital is estimated at 63,311, as on December 31, 2003. This includes three-wheeler goods carriers and other light commercial vehicles. |
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