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           India to Try Car Rationing in Bid to Tackle Air Pollution

   by VOA News

   India's capital is starting the new year with an experiment designed to
   reduce the city's record-breaking air pollution.

   Beginning Friday, cars with odd-numbered license place will be allowed
   on New Delhi streets on odd-numbered days.  Cars with even-numbered
   plates will be allowed on even numbered days.

   The two-week trial, which ends January 15, is designed to limit the
   number of private cars on the capital's streets.

   Drivers seemed to be following the rules Friday.  However, skeptics
   said with schools and some offices closed because of the New Year's
   holiday, the capital has yet to get a real idea of how motorists will
   adhere to the restrictions.

   "This plan will only be successful when it becomes a very big movement,
   when people will want to obey it from their heart," said Chief Minister
   Arvind Kejriwal, who promised that he and his ministers would carpool.

   A number of exemptions to the odd-even deal are in place, including for
   women drivers and people on motorbikes.

   A 2014 World Health Organization survey identified New Delhi as the
   world's most polluted city, partly because of the millions of vehicles
   clogging the city's streets.
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