The department needs to improve its performance in implementing environmental laws.
LAHORE: It is surprising to note that the Punjab Environment Protection Department has so far, for September, only been able to impose fines of Rs12,250 on owners of vehicles found violating environmental laws. As a matter of fact, the department is instead focusing all its energies and resources on the anti-dengue campaign on the instructions of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. The department needs to improve its performance on this matter because private and public vehicles are perhaps the largest contributors to air and noise pollution in the province and this, in turn, reduces the quality of life of its residents.
Muhammad Ikram
Published in The Express Tribune, September 30th, 2013.
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