vehicles and industrial units.<\/a> To further improve the air quality, the government has mandated that all new buildings must provide charging stations for electric vehicles before they can be granted No-Objection Certificates (NOCs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lahore: The Punjab government has decided to construct an air purification (Anti-smog) tower in Lahore and other cities to counter smog in the city, news sources reported on January 3. Read: Lahore Development Authority Notifies New Master Plan-2050 Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Ch Pervaiz Elahi and Chinese Consul General Lahore Zhao Shiren recently completed talks to install an anti-smog tower in and around industrial zones and border areas in collaboration with a Chinese firm. The Chinese Council presented a comprehensive demonstration of the tower’s capabilities and reported that it has been successful in reducing PM 2.5 levels by 15% in peak seasons in China. The council said that the anti-smog setup in Xi\u2019an city is able to provide 10 million cubic metres (353 million cubic feet) of clean air a day. Read: Anti-smog operations launched in Rawalpindi division, heavy fines imposed It is important to note Lahore has been ranked among the worst cities in the world for air quality in the last few years, prompting the Punjab government to declare the situation a calamity and set up emergency squads to inspect vehicles and industrial units. To further improve the air quality, the government has mandated that all new buildings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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