{"id":55191,"date":"2019-09-14T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55191"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T10:52:58","slug":"marble-factories-sealed-causing-environmental-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/marble-factories-sealed-causing-environmental-pollution.html","title":{"rendered":"Marble factories sealed for causing environmental pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The District Administration Peshawar, in collaboration with the Environment Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), recently conducted a joint operation to inspect various marble factories operational in the city, a news source reported. Eleven of these factories have been sealed for causing environmental pollution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-govt-to-install-air-quality-monitors-in-peshawar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP govt to install air quality monitors in Peshawar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional Assistant Commissioner Town-II Mina Zahir, along with Inspector Environment Department Riaz Khan, raided and inspected marble factories located on Warsak Road on the orders of Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar. During these inspections, they found that some factories did not have filtration plants or were not following the code of conduct relayed by the Environment Department. All such facilities, thereafter, were temporarily shut down; with their owners scheduled to face legal proceedings in the coming period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mou-signed-to-make-peshawar-a-smart-city.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MoU signed to make Peshawar a smart city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lack of filtration plants in these factories had resulted in polluted, even toxic, water being drained into the city\u2019s canals. This, further, had caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-cm-seeks-long-term-strategy-address-peshawars-drainage-issues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">canal blockages<\/a> \u2013 affecting the regions agricultural productivity as well as contributing to other forms of environmental pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The District Administration Peshawar, in collaboration with the Environment Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), recently conducted a joint operation to inspect various marble factories operational in the city, a news source reported. Eleven of these factories have been sealed for causing environmental pollution. Read:\u00a0KP govt to install air quality monitors in Peshawar Additional Assistant Commissioner Town-II Mina Zahir, along with Inspector Environment Department Riaz Khan, raided and inspected marble factories located on Warsak Road on the orders of Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Muhammad Ali Asghar. During these inspections, they found that some factories did not have filtration plants or were not following the code of conduct relayed by the Environment Department. All such facilities, thereafter, were temporarily shut down; with their owners scheduled to face legal proceedings in the coming period. Read:\u00a0MoU signed to make Peshawar a smart city The lack of filtration plants in these factories had resulted in polluted, even toxic, water being drained into the city\u2019s canals. This, further, had caused canal blockages \u2013 affecting the regions agricultural productivity as well as contributing to other forms of environmental pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":12700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12973],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-marble-factories-sealed-for-causing-environmental-pollution"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marble factories sealed for causing environmental pollution - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The District Administration Peshawar, in collaboration with the Environment Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), recently conducted a joint\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/marble-factories-sealed-causing-environmental-pollution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marble factories sealed for causing environmental pollution - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The District Administration Peshawar, in collaboration with the Environment Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), recently conducted a joint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/marble-factories-sealed-causing-environmental-pollution.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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