Overcoming Political Opposition: CNG Mandates in Delhi A Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

In 1985, members of Congress Mehta, a lawyer and head of his own environmental NGO, filed a lawsuit interest (PIL) in the Supreme Court of India in response to the 1981 Air (Prevention and Control of pollution) Act in the vicinity of India's National Capital Region (NCR). In 1988, experts from the World Bank informed the Indian government that, given the level of air pollution in the National Capital Region have come from a large fleet of cars, an effective policy would be to instruct on cleaning of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transport. Despite the fact that the government is actively addresses a number of policies, he was unable to realize any. By the beginning of the 1990s, New Delhi, was the fourth most polluted city in the world. As of June 1998 to the south of the concentration of solid particles in the air in Delhi, was three times higher than the standards set by the Central Pollution Control Board of India. This case the Indian Supreme Court ruling in 1998 that all buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi to switch to cleaner fuels by 31 March 2001. Public transport operators, regional governments and all the inhabitants of Delhi had interests at stake, and do not necessarily support the changes. Body is divided into 3 parts: A, B, and C-sets and an analysis of how the Supreme Court will eventually reach its mandate. "Hide
by Saumitra Jha Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 4 pages. Publication Date: November 14, 2012. Prod. #: P79A-PDF-ENG

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