India, July 21 -- The Delhi government has cleared the implementation of the Parivartan scheme by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways to phase out ageing, polluting commercial vehicles and promote cleaner alternatives, officials said on Monday.

The proposal was approved at a recent Cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Rekha Gupta. She had said that the scheme would facilitate the replacement of old trucks and buses in Delhi-NCR with BS-6, higher-emission-standard, or electric vehicles, strengthening the Capital's clean mobility push and curbing vehicular emissions.

Under Parivartan (Programme for accelerated renewal and incentivisation of vehicle assets for reducing transport air pollution and network emissions), owne...