More than 60,000 ageing vehicles, from autorickshaws to taxis, were ordered off the streets of Kolkata over the weekend in an attempt to ease the city's chronic air pollution. Kolkata's high court had given owners of commercial vehicles older than 15 years a one-year deadline that ended on Saturday. "This is a green-letter day for the city. At last, it is being enforced," said Subhas Dutta, an environmental activist whose legal battle against the city's polluters brought about the court order last year. The government is also encouraging new autorickshaws and taxis to use compressed natural gas as fuel.
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