{"id":55433,"date":"2019-09-21T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=55433"},"modified":"2019-09-20T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:22:39","slug":"epd-to-penalise-kilns-not-converting-to-zigzag-technology-by-sep-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epd-to-penalise-kilns-not-converting-to-zigzag-technology-by-sep-30.html","title":{"rendered":"EPD to penalise kilns not converting to zigzag technology by Sep 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Environment Protection Department (EPD) will be taking action against brick kilns not converting to zigzag technology by September 30, according to a news report. Environment Protection Secretary Salman Ijaz made an announcement regarding this matter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/special-committee-on-conversion-of-brick-kilns-to-zigzag-technology-begins-work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Special committee on conversion of brick kilns to zigzag technology begins work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EPD finalised this decision at a high-level meeting chaired by Ijaz. Other members of the meeting included EPD Director General Irfan Nazir, EPD (EIA) Director General (DG) Naseemur Rehman Shah, Director Nusrat Naaz, as well as officers of the agriculture, forest, transport, and other relevant departments. Representatives from the brick kilns also attended this meeting to express their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kilns-operating-on-btk-technology-banned.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kilns operating on BTK technology banned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this meeting was to prepare for the smog season, and review the performance of all departments in this matter. The cabinet will review a smog policy, with the consultation of all stakeholders. Currently, 300 kilns in Punjab have converted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/crackdown-planned-against-kilns-not-operating-on-zigzag-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zigzag technology<\/a>, and all kilns will be completely shut down in the smog season at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Environment Protection Department (EPD) will be taking action against brick kilns not converting to zigzag technology by September 30, according to a news report. Environment Protection Secretary Salman Ijaz made an announcement regarding this matter on Wednesday. Read: Special committee on conversion of brick kilns to zigzag technology begins work The EPD finalised this decision at a high-level meeting chaired by Ijaz. Other members of the meeting included EPD Director General Irfan Nazir, EPD (EIA) Director General (DG) Naseemur Rehman Shah, Director Nusrat Naaz, as well as officers of the agriculture, forest, transport, and other relevant departments. Representatives from the brick kilns also attended this meeting to express their concerns. Read: Kilns operating on BTK technology banned The aim of this meeting was to prepare for the smog season, and review the performance of all departments in this matter. The cabinet will review a smog policy, with the consultation of all stakeholders. Currently, 300 kilns in Punjab have converted to zigzag technology, and all kilns will be completely shut down in the smog season at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":37502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8327,9069,13068],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-anti-smog-campaign-begins","8":"tag-brick-kilns","9":"tag-zigzag-technology"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPD to penalise kilns not converting to zigzag technology by Sep 30 - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Environment Protection Department (EPD) will be taking action against brick kilns not converting to zigzag technology by September 30,\" \/>\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\/epd-to-penalise-kilns-not-converting-to-zigzag-technology-by-sep-30.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPD to penalise kilns not converting to zigzag technology by Sep 30 - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Environment Protection Department (EPD) will be taking action against brick kilns not converting to zigzag technology by September 30,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epd-to-penalise-kilns-not-converting-to-zigzag-technology-by-sep-30.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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