Grade-17 deputationist calling the shots in HED on June 19, 2019A junior officer is overshadowing all administrative affairs in the Punjab Higher Education Department, Daily Times has learnt. Ishtiaq Ahmad, a grade 17 lecturer, is serving as the personal staff officer (PSO) to the HED minister. “Earlier, he was posted at Government College Pattoki. However, he managed to get deputation in the Punjab HED eight […]
LWMC inaction turns Lahore into ‘city of garbage’ on May 19, 2019Filthy roads, heaps of garbage, littered streets, rising smoke from burning piles of waste and overflowing trash bins are a common scene in most areas of the provincial capital nowadays due to the inefficiency of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC). Lahore – once known as the city of gardens – has been turned it […]
Rehabilitation of Shalimar Garden to set about in July on May 2, 2019After an arduous delay of over ten years, the Punjab Archaeology Department has once again pulled up its socks set for the conservation of Shalamar Gardens Lahore. A department has also been set up to import the required stone from India. To conserve and rehabilitate the garden, the department had prepared a PC-1 in 2007. […]
EPA reluctant to audit private environmental labs on April 12, 2019The Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given free hand to private certified environmental laboratories as agency remained reluctant to conduct their periodic audit and performance evaluation. Due to reluctance of EPA, such laboratories are providing fake and un-realistic environmental data in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports of their proponents to obtain no objection certificate […]
PM directs Punjab EPD to monitor hospitals in province on April 9, 2019The prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has assigned the Punjab Environmental Protection Department (EPD) to hold the effective monitoring of large private hospitals in the province. Following the PM directive, the EPD’s implementing agency, Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has written letters to all the concerned deputy directors (field) in the province to comply […]
Punjab to establish new tehsils and districts on April 4, 2019The Punjab Government has decided to establish three new districts and three new tehsils in province. Daily Times has learnt. In a bid for establishment of new districts and tehsils, Chief Minister Office has sent a directive to Board of Revenue. According to details, the proposed new districts in Punjab are Jarranwala; a tehsil of […]
World Water Day: Pakistan on the verge of water crisis on March 22, 2019Though the World Water Day is being observed across the globe today, yet water shortage is likely to hit the Pakistan-posing threat to national economy, ecosystem and food security. The country once remained a favorable due to its geographic conditions where glaciers and connected rivers had been considered enough for its water requirements but the […]
Low yields feared in Punjab due to excessive rains on March 15, 2019The Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) has feared that province might not achieve the annual targets of one of the major crop-wheat, owing to the above than average rains in the season. This also has been feared that the situation can be worrisome for the growers of other bumper crops; sugar cane and cotton, due to […]
Concerns on health safety: EPA to monitor drinking water on March 12, 2019After a span of over five years, the Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started monitoring drinking water in the province, Daily Times learnt. The media and different forums have been highlighting issues over provision of unsafe drinking water but agency remained reluctant to rectify and take preventive measures. There are two major sources of […]
LWMC dumping bulk of toxic waste illegally on March 11, 2019Thousands of tons of hazardous and toxic city waste is being dumped illegally by Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) at its own landfill site in Lahore. Despite spending billions of rupees annually, dumping of huge volume of waste, including commercial, industrial and domestic is being continued in the premises of LWMC’s own Scientific Landfill Site-established […]