( 1 ) BHURE Lal Committee has submitted its Report dated 1/04/1999. A perusal of the Report reveals that private (noncommercial) vehicles comprise 90% of the vehicles plying in Delhi. It is estimated that more than 90% of the Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and respirable particulate matter (RSPM) from vehicular exhaust over Delhi is due to diesel emissions. Impairment of visibility and haze-like conditions are also attributed to tiny suspended particulate matter in the air. Based on the report of its scientific panel, the california- Air Resource Board formally designated diesel particulate as a Toxic Air contaminant on 27/08/1998 thereby declaring that it had the potential to cause cancer. It was estimated that chronic exposure to such toxic air contaminant would lead to 300 additional cases of lung cancer per million people. It is indeed a matter of serious concern - the very right to file of the citizens is at stake.

( 2 ) IT is noticed that more and more private vehicles (non-commercial) are turning to diesel as the fuel of choice primarily because of the price differential between diesel and petrol. On account of extensive use of diesel there is rise in environmental pollution at a phen