SC ban on diesel taxis: With car EMIs, drivers’ salaries and office expenses, Delhi taxi owners demand 5 yrs time

New Delhi, May 10 (KNN) The travel agency owners or the diesel taxi owners have been agitating against the ban imposed on diesel cabs in NCR by the Supreme Court. The taxi owners are crying about the huge losses they are incurring each day due to the ban.

KNN spoke to few taxi owners of Delhi who provides services in Delhi- NCR and also have all India-permit.

Owner of the Pawan Sharma Taxi Services said, “The Government should completely ban the sale of diesel cars in the city. We do not manufacture the diesel taxis but the Government does. Then why the entire burden has been put on us?”

Despite demand on surge we are unable to provide service in and around Delhi, he claimed.

“Mine as many as eight diesel taxis are not running which leads to the loss of Rs. 20,000 per day,” he added.

Satyendra Yadav who runs Deep Travels told KNN, “Private number diesel cars are also running on the roads, so why ban diesel taxis only?  Private cars are equally contributing to the pollution,” he claimed.

The taxi drivers demanded that, “We should be given five years’ time to settle our loans which we have taken for purchase of diesel taxi.”

Government should remove the diesel taxies slowly from the road; he said adding that this has come as a sudden shock to us.

He further states that the CNG taxies are not successful on the roads.

“Right now we have seven cabs out on the road but we are suffering a loss of around Rs. 30,000 daily,” he added.

Mohammad Islam who owns FTS Travels in Delhi said, “The conversion of diesel engine into CNG costs around Rs 1.5 lakh per car which I can’t bear and apart from this life of car gets reduced by three years as well as resell value also goes down.”

“We have to pay drivers salaries, EMIs, office expenses etc.” he cried.

“My whole business is Delhi based, as a result of this I am incurring a loss of Rs. 35000 per day,” he said. (KNN Bureau)