Saar: While vehicles with diesel engines will have an orange sticker on the front windshield, the petrol and CNG ones will have light-blue coloured stickers.

Just over two weeks ago, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) had put forward its suggestion to the Supreme Court of India (SCI) about colour-coding the vehicles in the Delhi-NCR region. The idea is to identify which vehicle is running on what kind of fuel. Well, the SCI has given the go-ahead to implement this scheme, which could very well see a nationwide implementation.

Vehicles with a diesel engine will have a hologram-based orange sticker on the front windshield, whereas vehicles running on petrol or CNG (compressed natural gas) will have a light-blue coloured sticker. These stickers will also carry the date of manufacturing of the vehicle. The apex court has directed the ministry to ensure that vehicles on the roads of Delhi-NCR have these stickers by September 30, 2018.

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This initiative has been taken to help curb the problem of air toxicity in and around the national capital. Currently, diesel vehicles of more than 10 years and petrol ones of more than 15 years of age are not allowed to be on Delhi-NCR roads. The registration of such vehicles has also been stopped. With the stickers and the date of manufacturing prominently displayed on the windscreen, it will become easier for the authorities to identify, stop, check and penalise offenders.

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Soon, this colour-coding scheme will further expand its footprint in allotting specific coloured stickers for hybrid vehicles and those which have a BS-VI compliant powerplant underneath. In May this year, a proposal to have green number plates for pure-electric vehicles was also given the go-ahead. While private electric vehicles (EVs) will have a white font with a green background, commercial vehicles will have yellow fonts with the same green background.