Director General (DG) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has directed crush plants of Abbottabad for immediate stoppage of activities to attend proceedings in this connection at the office of the agency in the district on January 9, 2017.
The crush plants asked for stoppage of activities are included Yasir Khan and Munir Khan Crush Plant, Ghumawan Abbottabad, Wali Dad and Aftab Khan Crush Plant, Siraj-ul-Islam and Aftab Khan Crush Plant, Qazi Waki-Ur-Rehman and Munir Khan Crush Plant, Qazi Saeed Gul and Qazi Usman Khan Crush Plant, Ahmed Ali Khan and Munir Khan Crush Plant, Naeem Khan and Aftab Khan Crush Plant, Ibrahim and Munir Khan Crush Plant, Azhar Khan and Aftab Khan Crush Plant, Amjid Khan and Munir Crush Plant, Hamad Khan and Usman Khan Crush Plant.
An EPA monitory team had visited the concerned crush plants on a complaint from the residents of Village Ghumawan, District Abbottabad and found the stone crushing units as source of air/dust and noise pollution which is injurious to human health and surrounding environment.
This act of aforementioned crushing plants has been termed violation of the provision of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Environmental Protection Act 2014. The above crush plants had been sealed by EPA on July 20, 2016 due to non-compliance of Environmental Protection Order and de-sealed on August 15, 2016. However for repeated violating the Environmental Law the authorities of EPA have under KP EPA-2014 took the step of stopping immediately all activities at the site of the above mentioned crushing plants.
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