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Delhi government has extended the deadline for the light commercial vehicles to switch over to CNG by three months

Delhi government has extended the deadline for the light commercial vehicles to switch over to CNG by three months

The Delhi Government may extend the deadline for converting the light commercial vehicles run on diesel and petrol to CNG ones for another three months.

Clean and green: A Delhi Transport Corporation CNG bus File pic

The deadline set by the Government expires on June 30 and it may be extended for another three months, Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said.

The Government had issued a notice six months ago for converting all the light commercial vehicles to CNG (Compressed Natural Gas).

"We will give another three months time which will be the final deadline," Lovely told the Assembly adding that converting the vehicles to CNG was necessary for protecting the environment.

Delhi has around 40,000 light commercial vehicles which run on either petrol or diesel.