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Basharat Peer in New Delhi.
The Centre might promulgate an ordinance in order to sidestep the Supreme Court's directive to take diesel buses off Delhi roads.
During a meeting with transporters, Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said that the government was looking at ways to avoid changing the transport system in Delhi to a single fuel mode.
"The minister told us that he was not in favour of single fuel mode. He assured us that the Centre was looking at an ordinance or other legal means to avoid the switchover to CNG [compressed natural gas]," Harish Sabarwal, leader of a transporters' association, told rediff.com
The Centre was also planning to take the opposition into confidence over the issue.
"The petroleum minister told us that the issue was not political. So the central government would speak to the Congress leadership about... the ordinance," he said.
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