World's Most Polluted City Plans Odd/Even Cars on Alternate Days
- India's capital New Delhi plans to implement starting Jan. 1
- Move comes amid worsening air pollution as winter sets in
Smoke comes out of a public bus waiting at a traffic light in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Morgan Stanley reduced its growth estimate for India to 7 percent from 7.2 percent earlier for the year ending March 31, according to an e-mailed statement today.
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New Delhi, the world’s most polluted city, plans to restrict the number of cars on its roads by implementing license-plate based driving bans.
India’s capital will allow passenger vehicles with license plates ending with odd and even numbers to ply on alternate days starting Jan. 1, Chief Secretary K.K. Sharma said Friday after a meeting of Delhi’s Cabinet. The plan is limited to those vehicles registered in the capital, he said in a televised briefing.