Odd-even: Over 600 challaned on Day VI

Enforcement teams of Delhi government and Delhi Traffic Police booked as many as 635 motorists for violating the odd-even scheme on Wednesday.

Delhi Traffic Police challaned 217 violators while Transport department and district administration teams booked 418 people for driving odd-numbered vehicles.

On Tuesday, officials had issued 579 challans. The curb on vehicles under the scheme is enforced between 8 am and 8 pm on weekdays.

A penalty of Rs 2,000 under relevant sections of the Motor Vehicles Act is levied on violators of the road-rationing scheme under which cars with odd and even-numbered license plates ply on alternate days.

April 15, the first day of odd-even second phase had seen a total of 1,311 challans. The figures came down subsequently as penal action slowed down movement of vehicles leading to congestion.

Meanwhile, former Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel on Wednesday said he would continue to protest against the odd-even scheme in the national Capital, albeit in a different way.

Taking a leaf out of ‘Gandhigiri’, he said he will present roses to AAP legislators to register his protest.

Goel protested on Monday by violating the odd-even traffic system, for which he was issued a challan of Rs 2,000. He was also fined Rs 1,000 for not possessing insurance papers of his car and Rs 500 for not carrying a driver’s licence.

“The odd-even mechanism has only added to the citizen’s woes. A number of citizens and representatives of various NGOs, including Lok Abhiyan, will visit the residences of all 67 Aam 

Aadmi Party MLAs on April 22 and offer them roses along with the memorandums stating that the scheme was implemented without any groundwork,” Goel said in a statement here.

He said that if the scheme was implemented after proper preparation, it would have been a success.

The BJP leader said that volunteers supporting his stand on the issue will ride two-wheelers to the residences of AAP MLAs and offer them roses and “seek their cooperation” over the issue.

Goel said the Delhi government led by Arvind Kejriwal was confused over the odd-even scheme and huge public money was being wasted in the process.