Kejriwal government mulling odd-even scheme for 15 days every month

The Delhi government is "seriously" mulling a proposal to enforce the odd-even scheme for 15 days every month, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference, he said a fortnight every month was being thought of since it cannot be made permanent in the absence of a robust public transport system. The odd-even scheme, which returns in the city on April 15, leaves cars carrying children in school uniform out of its ambit, the only tweak in the blueprint for its implementation when compared to the first phase.

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The list of exemptions include VIP and CNG cars, vehicles being driven by women, cases of medical emergency and cars carrying disabled persons, Kejriwal said. Kejriwal admitted that implementing the exemption to cars carrying children in school uniform would be tricky as not all such vehicles stay behind to bring students back from the school.

Shoe attack on Delhi CM

A shoe was hurled at Delhi Chief Minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday by a man who claimed to be from Aam Aadmi Sena, a breakaway group of AAP, during a press conference, but it did not hit the AAP chief.

The attacker, identified as Ved Prakash, was detained by police, which quizzed him. He talked about alleged irregularities in distribution of CNG stickers and claimed that no action has been taken though a complaint was filed by him with the chief minister. The incident happened during a press conference at Delhi Secretariat addressed by Kejriwal on roll out of the second phase of the Odd-Even scheme. The shoe fell short of the CM, who had earlier been targeted with ink and was slapped by a man during campaigning for the last Assembly election.