Delhi Govt Bans Fuel for 15-Year-Old Vehicles Under New Anti-Pollution Measures

Delhi Govt Bans Fuel for 15-Year-Old Vehicles: To further reduce the pollution levels in Delhi, environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa announced on Saturday that the petrol supply will be denied to vehicles which are more than 15 years old from March 31.

Announcing a hoard of anti-pollution measures, Sirsa said that the newly formed BJP government was really making strong efforts to control vehicle exhaust and pollution emission levels. Discussed were the imposition of age restrictions on vehicles, mandatory mech-anisms for anti-smog, and transit to electric public transport.

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“We are installing gadgets at petrol pumps which will identify vehicles older than 15 years, and no fuel will be provided to them,” Sirsa said, adding that the decision will also be communicated to the Union Ministry of Petroleum.

Apart from restricting fuel supply, all high-rises, hotels, and commercial buildings in Delhi will have anti-smog guns for pollution reduction.

“There are some big hotels, some big office complexes, Delhi airport, and big construction sites in Delhi. We are going to make it mandatory for all of them to immediately install anti-smog guns to control pollution at their places. We are going to make it mandatory for all the high-rise buildings in Delhi to install smog guns. We are going to make it mandatory for all the hotels in Delhi to install smog guns. Similarly, we are going to make it mandatory for all the commercial complexes,” Sirsa told reporters after the meeting.

According to the minister, by December 2025, nearly 90 per cent public CNG buses in Delhi will be taken out of service and will be replaced by electric buses.

Delhi Petrol Dealers Association President Nischal Singhania welcomed the announcement regarding the restrictions on fuel. “Vehicles older than 15 years are already banned by the Supreme Court; they can’t ply in Delhi. We already have systems where we capture the number plates of vehicles, and the system was used only to give alerts to customers who don’t have a PoC setup. I think the same system can be used to capture the number of vehicles which are 15 years old,” he told PTI.

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Sirsa said that permission from the Centre would be sought by the BJP government for carrying out cloud seeding and inducing artificial rains whenever air pollution increases in the city.

Air pollution in New Delhi was only one of the many issues on which the ruling caste, BJP, and the opposition party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), bashed each other during the 2025 assembly election campaign.

While the BJP accused the former ruling party of not doing enough for an end to stubble burning in Punjab, the AAP retaliated by blaming the Centre along with neighboring BJP-ruled states, for not cooperating. “Neither the central government, Haryana government nor the Uttar Pradesh government are doing anything to control air pollution,” AAP leader Manish Sisodia said in November last year.

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