India, Feb. 28 -- New Delhi

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Friday said it is working on a plan to study the feasibility of switching a substantial number of government vehicles in the Capital to electric mode and will submit a plan within a month to the Supreme Court.

In a statement to a bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, the government's law officer, additional solicitor general (ASG) Aishwarya Bhati said that the commission has started consulting stakeholders following the court's order on January 27, wherein it sought to know whether a policy decision can be taken to ensure vehicles purchased by governments, municipal bodies and affiliated agencies would be of the...