New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Delhi Transport Department has extended the validity of learners driving licenses expiring on March 31 by two months till May 31 2022 Delhis Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot announced the development and said it is the final opportunity for people to get their learners licenses renewed Those Learners License whose validity is going to expire by March 31 has been extended for a period of 2 months ie up to May 31 Pls note that this is the last and final opportunity Gahlot said in a tweet He also attached a picture of the order issued by his department in this connection The order issued by the Transport Department on Thursday said that the validity of driving learners licenses has been extended from time to time because driving skill test and new appointments for the test were suspended in pursuance of Delhi Disaster Management Authority DDMA guidelines to contain COVID-19 spread It has come to notice that several learners license holders which were declared valid between February 1 2020 and March 31 2022 due to extended validity on account of pandemic situation have not yet got the skill test appointments and there are many more applicants than the available driving skill test slots Therefore the validity of those learners license issued by this department whose validity going to expire by March 31 2022 is further extended as a final opportunity for a period of two months ie upto May 31 2022 the order issued by the department said The order further said that the last extension for validity of driving learners license was given up to March 31 2022 in January this year PTI AKM RCJ

New Delhi Feb 25 PTI Delhi Transport department has directed that no objection certificates NOCs will be issued for de-registered 10 to 15 years old diesel and above 15 years old petrol vehicles for other states barring restricted areas there as per NGT directive An order issued by Transport department on Friday also stated that no NOC will be issued for diesel vehicles older than 15 years from their first registration and such vehicles will be scrapped only The National Green TribunalNGT in its order on July 27 2016 had directed the states to identify the areas where the dispersion of air is higher and vehicular density is least to pave for registration and running of old vehicles there The green court had also directed that vehicle which are more than 15 years old would be deregistered and then gradually other vehicles would be deregistered from 15 years to 10 years respectively All the registering authorities or regional transport offices of Transport department may issue NOC for transfer of vehicles to other states for diesel petrol and CNG vehicles to the districts places permitted by the concerned states said the order The NOC will also be issued for districts or states from which neither the information has been received by Transport department nor it was uploaded on their respective websites said the order The NOC issued by the Transport department of Delhi government will be withdrawn for other states if the RTOregistering authorities concerned decline to register the vehicle there added the order PTI VIT RCJ RCJ