Gurgaon cracks down on PUC check centres

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Gurgaon Vinay Pratap Singh had then directed the RTA and sub-divisional magistrates to inspect such centres.
The authority subsequently asked 132 pollution check centres in the district to either get the required equipment installed or face action. On December 28 last year, officials of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board ( HSPCB) , during a surprise inspection, had found that two centres at Rajeev Chowk and one at Jharsa Chowk did not have the requisite infrastructure.

The HSPCB, in its report to the RTA, said that though these centres had no equipment to check vehicular emissions, they continued to issue PUC certificates. “We have suspended licences of the three centres… Those centres, which do not have proper infrastructure for checking vehicle exhaust emission-based pollution, will be shut down,” said Bharat Bhushan, additional secretary, RTA.