The automaker will start exports of Kwid to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries and the car's parts to Brazil from March onwards.

The new Endeavour comes with both 2-wheel and 4-wheel as well as automatic option and is assembled at its Chennai plant.

In a meeting with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, auto companies suggested compliance of BS VI norms be first applicable to the new models to be launched by 2020.

The air you breathe is cleaner, the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government has said. In fact, the government says pollution was down by as much as 50 per cent on Saturday.

Stating that cars contribute only 2 per cent to the overall pollution, Maruti Suzuki Chairman R C Bhargava said it will be a challenge to upgrade technologies to meet BS VI norms in just four years.

Vivek Chattopadhyaya, Programme Manager, Air Pollution Control Unit at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), talks to BT's Sarika Malhotra about Delhi's odd-even drive to combat pollution.

In a bid to curb vehicular pollution, the government decided to implement stricter emission norms of Bharat Stage VI from April 1, 2020 by skipping BS-V altogether.

The Society of Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), apex body of the Indian automakers has welcomed government's decision to move over to BS V emission norms by 2019.

Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari indicated on Wednesday that the government may not be in position to extend the deadline for compliance with the stricter Euro VI emission norms and urged the auto industry to upgrade its technology at the earliest.

It said the industry has been slowly turning around after witnessing a prolonged slowdown but there are speed breakers in the form of government policies as the country prepares for future emission norms and safety standards.

Realising that clean technologies will be its primary weapon to win the battle against global warming, India has put in place certain measures. Supercritical thermal power plants and technology to convert garbage into fuel are some of them.

Delhi will have to work with a mix of short and medium-term measures to tackle its ever increasing pollution problems