Millions of citizens of Lahore are suffering from various serious diseases due to alarming air pollution due to the smoke emitting and unfil vehicles. The mechanically unfit vehicles are magnificently running on the roads without fitness certificate for countless years due to the rampant mismanagement and negligence of Environment Department and Transport Departments.
The problem has grown worse over the last five years due to the high levels of pollution and poor air quality in the city, created by increasing vehicular and industrial emissions. Even during the summer months, there is now a permanent haze hanging over the city that is only relieved when it rains and the pollution is washed away for a short while.
Air pollution is an issue that needs to be urgently addressed as Lahore is now considered amongst the most polluted cities in Asia. In the winter months, with delayed rainfall, the cold and continuously dry conditions concentrate all the pollutants in the lower levels of the atmosphere, causing the smog to spread all over the Punjab.
It is the highly responsibility of both departments to take strict action against the smoke emitting vehicles under the mandatory provisions of Pakistan Environment Protection Act 1977 and Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1969.
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