Odd-even: Women, cars carrying students in school uniform exempt

The decisions were taken in a meeting chaired by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal which was attended ministerial colleagues and members of the coordination committee formed for the scheme.

“It has been decided that women will continue to remain exempted from the scheme due to security considerations. Government has also decided that cars carrying school students will also be exempted,” transport minister Gopal Rai told reporters.

“Cars carrying student(s) in school uniform shall be exempted during odd-even starting 15th April,” deputy CM Manish Sisodia tweeted.

Asked about confusion that may arise over parents going to pick up children after school hours, Rai said, they were still working on the modalities and the final notification in this regard will be out in a day or two. 

As announced earlier, CNG vehicles will also remain exempted from the vehicle-rationing restrictions arising out of the scheme’s implementation. Cars with odd and even license plate numbers will ply on alternate days during its duration. The exemption categories involving women and CNG cars were also in place during the first phase of odd-even from January 1 to 15.

A three-tier air quality monitoring will be put in place by Delhi government during the second phase of the odd-even scheme with a special focus on the border areas of the national capital where particulate matters are recorded on the higher side.

Central government ministers will remain exempt from odd-even scheme while Kejriwal and his Cabinet colleagues will come under the ambit of the second phase of the road-rationing plan starting from April 15, Rai added. 

Rai said that the city government does not want any “unnecessary controversy” by bringing union ministers under ambit of the 15-day scheme.

“As we had kept Central government ministers out of the first phase of odd-even scheme, we will also continue with exemption to these ministers during the second phase of this scheme,” Rai said.