The city and parts of the rural areas of the district report many accidents due to overloaded and overspeeding dumper trucks and commercial vehicles. The movement of such vehicles also causes heavy pollution. The city is still to have any CNG or LPG pump.

Thousands of commercial vehicles, including about 20,000 three-wheelers run on diesel engines, which hardly comply with the emission norms.

According to Rajkumar, a resident of Sector 21-D, trucks that come from the Pali village direction and go towards Delhi dominate the roads in the area, especially Surajkund-Bhadkhal Road. It is quite dangerous to move on these roads. These trucks are driven at a high speed leading to several accidents.

It is reported that there is a hub of stone crushers near Pali village. The road material prepared by these crushers is transported to nearby areas mainly by the trucks.

While the crusher zone itself has been a cause of air pollution for the villages nearby and even for the residents of Sector 49, the pollution control department has failed to check the problem due to corruption at various levels.

Though the Supreme Court had banned mining of stone and building material in the Surajkund area and the Aravalli Hills falling within five kms limit from the Delhi border, it is learnt that dumpers and trucks still move in a large number, carrying the material from the areas still not covered in the ban.

These vehicles are overloaded many times and do not follow the speed norms, resulting in accidents and loss of revenue to the state government.

Claiming that the overloaded dumper trucks have become a bane of the people of Palwal, Hodal and Hathin, a social activist based here said this needs to be checked in the larger interest of the people.

He alleged that the police and other departments concerned had been helpless in view of the political shelter to such an activity.

He said that a large number of accidents had taken place in the region, taking many innocent lives and the residents had been left with no option than to block roads.

Demanding a ban on parking of the commercial vehicles in the residential areas, Suresh Kaushik of the Manav Sewa Samiti said that there was a need to impound such vehicles, besides the launching of CNG-operated public vehicles in the city.