The national capital on Tuesday witnessed heavy traffic jams, primarily in the border areas as diesel taxi drivers continued their protest against a Supreme Court order banning them in NCR.
The taxi drivers parked their cars on the road at Mahipalpur near the Delhi-Gurugram border, which stalled the traffic at the key junction. Diesel cab drivers also protested at the DND expressway connecting Noida and Delhi.
The Delhi government moved the Supreme Court over the issue, requesting it to remove diesel cabs from NCR in a phased manner. The government said that the fallout of the apex court order had led to law and order problem.
The Supreme Court asked the Delhi government to submit a detailed plan to phase out diesel taxis by 4 pm on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bidhuri said that he would raise the issue on behalf of the protesting taxi drivers in Parliament.
After extending the deadline twice, the apex court had on Saturday refused to give more time to cab operators to convert to CNG and put a ban on diesel cabs in the city from May 1.
According to Delhi transport department, about 60,000 taxis are registered in the national capital of which 27,000 run on diesel. Around 2,000 diesel-run taxis had converted into CNG mode in the last two months.
The diesel taxi drivers had argued before the Supreme Court that there was no technology to convert to CNG mode, but the apex court refused to give further extension on the issue.
The court, however, allowed cabs with All India Permit to play without converting to CNG.
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