EPCA's rise to prominence

EPCA was constituted with objective of protecting and improving quality of the environment

Two events that severely impacted the fortunes of the domestic automobile industry have hit the headlines. The first of these was an eight-month-long ban on sales of 2,000cc diesel personal vehicles in the National Capital Region in December 2015. The second, also a result of a Supreme Court order, came on Wednesday by way of a ban on sales of vehicles not conforming to BS-III emission norms from April 1.
 
The common link between these two cases is the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, also known as the EPCA, a statutory body constituted by the central government in