New Delhi: The Centre's panel on air quality in Delhi-NCR on Tuesday decided to put on hold the implementation of the fuel ban on end-of-life or overage vehicles in the national capital until November 1, sources said.

EOL vehicles are diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years.

According to directions issued earlier, such vehicles are not to be given fuel in Delhi from July 1 irrespective of the states they are registered in. Delhi environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa last week requested the Commission For Air Quality Management to withhold action against such vehicles, calling the move "premature and potentially counterproductive", citing "operational and infrastructural challenges".