{"id":7491,"date":"2022-11-06T02:42:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:33:27","slug":"odd-even-vehicle-rationing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/odd-even-vehicle-rationing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Odd-Even\u2019 Vehicle Rationing Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About \u2018Odd-Even\u2019 Vehicle Rationing Scheme:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Odd-even\u2019 was first introduced in 2016 by the AAP government to control vehicular pollution and bring down increasing particulate matter levels.<\/li>\n<li>Under it, private vehicles with registration plates ending in odd numbers could ply on odd dates, and even numbers on even dates.<\/li>\n<li>Studies and research done on its impact in Delhi suggest positive results \u2014 from reduction in congestion to a slight drop in pollution levels and consequent improvement in air quality.<\/li>\n<li>According to a study done by Delhi Technological University (DTU) published in 2016, when the scheme was implemented for a roughly two-week period, concentration of PM 2.5 and PM 1 saw a drop.<\/li>\n<li>Studies have also shown that on an average, there was a reduction in PM 2.5 of 5.73 per cent and 4.70 per cent in PM 1 levels.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/odd-even-vehicle-rationing-scheme-history-efficacy-expert-views-8252090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles having number plates ending with even numbers like 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 will be allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}