PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Arshad Hussain Shah has directed the quarters concerned to take resulted-oriented steps in order to control air pollution in the province, especially in Peshawar.
He directed them to come up with an appropriate and realistic way forward to effectively resolve the issues regarding emissions from vehicles, factories and other sources causing air and environmental pollution, further directing to ensure cleanliness on regular basis throughout the city.
“Officials of PDA, WSSP, Transport and Environment should make regular field visits and assess the overall activities regarding cleanliness, solid waste management and vehicles emission control,” he added.
He issued these directives while chairing a meeting regarding air/environmental pollution in the province. The participants discussed the air quality reports of Peshawar, major sources causing air pollution, proposed measures regarding improvement of air quality and other related matters.
The progress report of Environmental Protection Agency was also presented in the meeting. Briefing about the overall sources of pollution in Peshawar, it was informed that analysis showed that emissions from the transport sector made up 58.5pc of overall pollution whereas other contributors included soaddide dust with 17.7pc, domestic burning 11.7pc, industry 6.6pc, waste burning 4.10pc and commercial burning 1.4pc.
The detailed appraisal/performance assessment of vehicle emission control have been carried out and shared with transport department adding that action was also under process accordingly. Work is also in progress on conversion of traditional Brick Kilns into Zigzag technology so far two models zigzag brick kiln have been constructed.
A scheme for this purpose was reflected in the ADP of current fiscal year, under the first phase, a total of ten brick Kilns would be converted to Zigzag technology.
TEVTA has also been asked to start special training classes for the specific sector of brick kiln for the purpose. It was informed in the meeting that, so far, 256 brick Kilns have been monitored, out of which 224 were issued EPOs and 32 were blown out through fire brigade with the help of district administration. Similarly, a total of 39 steel mills have been monitored and EPO issued.
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