{"id":56521,"date":"2024-11-18T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56521"},"modified":"2024-11-18T21:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:23:02","slug":"punjab-govt-ordered-to-transition-to-electric-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-ordered-to-transition-to-electric-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Govt ordered to transition to electric bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/education\/punjab-government-puts-ban-on-o-level-history-book\/\">Punjab government<\/a> to shift motorcycles from petrol to battery-powered electric vehicles to help combat smog in the province.<\/p>\n<p>This decision came after a hearing related to smog control measures. Justice Shahid Karim emphasized the importance of creating a policy for small and medium-sized public transport in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>He also called for rigorous monitoring of motorcycles in the city, stressing that enforcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/smog-alert-punjab-cities-adopt-work-from-home-policy-till-dec-31\/\">smog policy<\/a> could significantly improve air quality. The court has adjourned the case until November 20th.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the Punjab Urban Unit recently published a report revealing key contributors to air pollution. The findings were alarming, showing that smoke-emitting vehicles are responsible for 83.15% of the pollution in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The report underscores that the main cause of air quality degradation is emissions from old or poorly maintained vehicles, outpacing all other pollution sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the Punjab government to shift motorcycles from petrol to battery-powered electric vehicles to help combat smog in the province. This decision came after a hearing related to smog control measures. Justice Shahid Karim emphasized the importance of creating a policy for small and medium-sized public transport in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[616,467,24101],"class_list":["post-56521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-lhc","tag-punjab-government","tag-smog-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56523,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56521\/revisions\/56523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}