Smog Woes Persist in Bahawalpur as Small Drivers Evade Action

APP

Bahawalpur: Dense smog has blanketed Bahawalpur, yet there hasn’t been any action taken against drivers with obscured number plates or vehicles without proper identification.

Like other districts in Punjab, Bahawalpur is among the regions that have been facing heavy smog for the last few days.

At night between Friday and Saturday and on Saturday morning, Bahawalpur continued receiving heavy smog with a bad smell, which has been affecting the health of people. People have been complaining of itching in their eyes and throats, as well as difficulty sighing.

It has been noticed that hundreds of little drivers, aged between eight and 15 years old, used to run motorcycles on city roads in Bahawalpur.

It is also mentioned here that a large number of vehicles without number plates, including cars and motorcycles, which could be estimated to be thousands in number, used to run on the roads in Bahawalpur on a daily basis.

Civil society leader Mian Asif said that the authorities could come over and decrease the smog levels when no action was taken against little drivers and without-number plate vehicles, including motorcycles, in Bahawalpur. Smog levels cannot be brought down in Bahawalpur until the little drivers, vehicles without number plates, and smog-emitting vehicles are stopped from coming on the roads, he said.