BS-VI fuel will be available from April: Prakash Javadekar

Jaipur: Bharat Stage (BS)-VI fuel will be available in several big cities of the country, including Jaipur, from 1 April next year and the initiative will reduce vehicular pollution by 80-90 percent, the Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said here on Tuesday.

“An investment of Rs 60,000 crore has been made for this. The initiative will reduce vehicular pollution by 80-90 percent,” Javadekar said after planting a sapling at the Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT).

He said the government has prepared a national clean air programme for 122 cities of the country under which schemes for reducing pollution will be made.