LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Friday ordered the school’s management to launch pick-and-drop services for students after the winter break.
The order was passed by LHC judge Justice Shahid Karim while hearing petitions against smog and pollution in the provincial capital.
The court directed that all students must be transported in buses operated by the school.
The court warned that any school which didn’t complied with these orders will be sealed.
The judge remarked that no school should have any written disclaimer relieving them of any responsibility of students being transported to the school.
Justice Shahid Karim ordered the transport authority to draft a vehicle fitness policy within 15 days.
He ordered that all vehicles must be inspected every three months and the transport department should issue fitness certificates.
The department was also instructed to keep a record of public and private buses in a database.
Later, the court adjourned the hearing till Tuesday.
Earlier today, Indian’s national capital Delhi overtook Lahore on Friday morning to become the world’s most polluted city again in Swiss group IQAir’s live rankings.
According to a report byIQAir which tracks real-time data on air quality worldwide, the air quality index (AQI) in India’s city of Delhi peaking 521 401 at 9am morning.
Meanwhile, Lahore, the second largest city in Pakistan, has air pollution levels recorded with AQI 499, making it the second most polluted city globally.
Both cities of the neighbouring countries remained in ‘hazardous’, category considered extremely harmful and seriously impacts those with existing diseases.
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranks as the world’s third polluted city with an AQI of 179 followed by Cairo, Egypt’s capital, with an AQI soaring to 176.
