Environmental problems: EPD forms teams to conduct survey

LAHORE: The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) will carry out a survey of 337 steel melting furnaces causing heavy emission of smoke in the city. According to EPD sources on Sunday, nine teams have been formed to carry out the survey of the industrial estate of nine towns of the city in the first stage. The department has also constituted a special ‘Vigilance Cell’ to address the environmental pollution issues caused by the steel melting furnaces and smoke-emitting factories, sources said. They said that these teams will carry out the raids on the factories, violating the law. The vigilance teams will determine the causes of industrial pollution and environmental status of the area, they added. In the next stage, vigilance cell will raid on re-rolling mills, flour mills, oil and ghee, marble cutting and polishing, pharmaceuticals, galvanising and metal working and engineering units, on the reports of these teams, sources said.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 7^th, 2018.