CHANDIGARH, June 1: A function was organised by the Indian Oil Corporation Limited at its outlet M/S Kapur Service Station, Sector 21, to generate awareness about vehicular pollution and the need to use unleaded petrol (ULP) and have catalytic converters.A.M. Nagar, state level co-ordinator, Punjab and Haryana, said that the oil industry was marching towards introduction of ULP facility and very soon all the new vehicles registered at Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Shimla and Jammu will be required to have catalytic converters fitted. It was earlier introduced in the metropolitans in 1994 and it was mandatory for metropolitan cities to have catalytic converters to check pollution.At present in Chandigarh, Indian Oil has seven outlets with ULP facility, Hindustan Petroleum eight, Bharat Petroleum and Indo-Burma Petroleum three each.Presiding over the function, Adviser to the UT Administrator, Jagdish Sagar, expressed concern over the fact that two-wheelers were a major cause of pollution, but very little was being done to control it.
