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The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) Chief Executive Officer Rafia Haider on Tuesday said that her department was taking extraordinary measures to control smog in the provincial capital.
She said this while presiding over a meeting to review measures taken for controlling smog in the city. LWMC Deputy CEOs, GM operation and enforcement officers from the towns participated in the meeting. Rafia Haider issued direction to officers to keep an eye on scrapping activities around major roads, service lanes, parks, schools and people setting fire to garbage around fruit markets and Sunday markets. She said that a special smog control team had been made and mobilised with enforcement team to monitor 43 hotspot points in two shifts, adding that the smog control teams were working across the city in two shifts.
She said that with the help of the teams, 43 hot spot points of garbage burning were being monitored for prevention of smog.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2022.
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