LHC questions measures taken to tackle smog, summons secretary environment
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday summoned secretary environment after it questioned measures taken to understanding with fog blanketing Punjab.
The LHC also remarked that smog has influenced a province during prior years and asked measures taken by a provincial government during a past year to understanding with a situation.
The entirety of Lahore is lonesome in smog, remarked a court.
At least four people have been killed and 44 harmed in smog-related accidents in Hafizabad, Rahim Yar Khan, Kashmore and Gujranwala.
At slightest 4 killed, energy lines outing as fog persists
Commuters are confronting problem manoeuvring their vehicles on roads lonesome in unenlightened smog
Besides highway accidents, a supply of electricity to many areas was influenced as energy lines have been tripping due to a unenlightened smog.
A sum of 1,750 megawatt of electricity shortfall was reported after a high delivery lines of Guddu Thermal Power Plant tripped.
Larkana, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Rahim Yar Khan, Jaffarabad and many areas of Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan were but electricity for over 12 hours before upkeep teams were means to correct a delivery lines on Monday evening.
Residents of several tools of Punjab continue to face health and commutation problems as fog engulfs many tools of a province, including province’s collateral Lahore.