Odd-even formula: Will AAP's plan sustain for 15 days?

India Today , Friday, January 08, 2016
Correspondent :
Although the government plans to impose the odd-even formula for 15 days altogether, the Delhi High Court has asked the AamAadmi Party (AAP) government to consider if the policy can be limited to just a week instead of a fortnight as planned. The court has said that it's causing great inconvenience to the public.

Karan Thapar, on his show, To The Point, asked questions on the odd-even policy that raised several eyebrows since its inception.

1 Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay has said that pollution levels were higher yesterday than they were on the first five days of January. Therefore, the odd-even policy has failed to reduce pollution. Can you give me the facts on which he has come to this conclusion?

2 As a citizen who lives in Delhi, has the odd-even formula in your eyes had an effect on pollution? If it hasn't, does the popularity of the scheme and the fact that it has peoples support make up for its failure in terms of pollution?

3 The Delhi High Court has observed that the odd-even policy has caused great inconvenience to the public. Is the court over extending itself and trespassing on the domain of the executive when it makes observations?

The panelists on Karan Thapar's show included chief scientist of CRRI Anuradha Shukla, CSI director general SunitaNarain, Greenpeace campaigner for air pollution Sunil Dahiya, former Supreme Court judge justice MarkandeyKatju, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and AamAadmi Party spokesperson Ashish Khetan.

Backing Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay's stand on the odd-even policy, Sambit Patra presented statistics and said that nothing has changed on ground. He went on to say that the policy is not effective enough.

Countering BJP's allegations, AAP's Ashish Khetan said that notable scientific institutions have said that air pollution levels have reduced considerably.

"I would not like to get into the statistics cited by the other panelists, because the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, Centre for Science and Environment and other notable scientific institutions are releasing data on a daily basis which shows that air pollution levels have come down ," Khetan said.

Responding to the observations made by the Delhi High Court, Khetan said, "We are going to present the data and the statistics tomorrow before the court."

Former Supreme Court judge Justice MarkandeyKatju lashed out at Arvind Kejriwal, saying that the odd-even formula will become very unpopular within two weeks and will have to be dropped by the government.

"Within two weeks there will be such hatred of the scheme that it will have to be dropped, it will become very unpopular," Katju said.

 
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