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Jagruti Jain, MBA 2015-17, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur
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Delhi, especially NCR region, has crossed the permitted limit of pollution. Knowing the fact that there are thousands of industries, IT companies located in Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon and too many people travelling daily, the per square feet population i NCR region ; it is not very surprising. So I think the Odd-Even rule, if implemented properly and obeyed by the people, would help controlling the rapidly growing pollution level.
Now the question comes whether it is feasible to implement this law? If we analyse this with respect to NCR region, it won’t be very difficult to implement this law. The connectivity in terms of public transport is the main advantage NCR has. Yes, Metro it is. The connectivity across different lines, the frequency of metros would not let the people affect their transportation. Metro is not the only mode. The bus service is far better than the other cities in India. So taking leverage of these facts, the government can go ahead with the Odd-Even rule.
The number of vehicles travelling on the road would apparently reduce by one-forth if not half. The consequence will be there will be less traffic jams, reducing the toxic emission from the idled engine. The pollution won’t be controlled over night. But at least the everyday addition of pollution can be reduced.
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