The capital city of India, New Delhi, will wear a new look with all automobiles taking the guard of green diesel- ultra low sulphur diesel- to prevent pollution. In this fuel, the content of sulphur is one-seventh of the content in diesel. The move is the follow up of the Euro IV norms applicable for the vehicles running in the city, from April 2010. The city has 50000 diesel cars at a given point at a given time equaling 5000 buses plying on diesel.

Now the green lobbies wear an upset look with the number of cars and emission of diesel variants turning towards CNG. The current diesel consists of 350 parts/million of sulphur but the ULSD will possess just 50ppm sulphur (still far below the international standard of 15ppm used since 2006). The move will hit the purse of the owners with the price factor, as diesel is the cheapest fuel for vehicles.

The Environment Secretary said the matter has been in the air for quite some time and the issue is to be resolved at the earliest with the number of vehicles increasing rapidly. With the government’s assurance about the supply of the new diesel from April, the implementation begins in parallel.