Lahore Ranks 5th in Global Air Pollution Ranking

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Lahore: Lahore, the provincial capital of Punjab, ranked as the fifth most polluted location worldwide on Sunday.

Despite cold winds persisting in the early morning under bright sunlight, the city’s air quality has once again deteriorated. The temperature was measured at 10 degrees Celsius, with forecasts indicating that the weather is expected to stay dry and polluted over the next 24 hours.

According to the Meteorological Department, the maximum temperature in the city is likely to go up to 21 degrees, the humidity in the air is 90 percent, the wind is blowing at a speed of 5 km, and there is no chance of rain in the next 24 hours.

Lahore ranks 5th in the global air pollution ranking, with an overall air quality index of 192.

Meanwhile, on the instructions of Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa, action continues against violations of anti-smog orders. Various trash-burning furnaces have been demolished for using old technology, while others were extinguished.

The Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD) also started various initiatives to control smog, under which smog dissolution weather generators have been installed in Lahore.

EPD Director Naseem-Ur-Rehman Shah that anti-smog generators were operating successfully in Russia and Dubai. Adding a weather generator is capable of dissolving smog or thickly polluted environments in a 10-square-kilometer area.

The EPD director said that all possible measures, including generators, were being taken to control the polluted air. Short- and medium-term projects have been prepared in this regard, he added.

He said that it was the need of the hour to reduce the emission of harmful gases and use modern technology to control air pollution.

Meanwhile, the EPD’s anti-pollution squad sealed various smoky units in the city.

The anti-smog squad is also imposing fines worth millions on factories and units responsible for creating smog.