Metro Bus Route to Go Green: Saplings Planted

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to plant saplings in March along the greenbelts on both sides of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus, which falls within the limits of the federal capital.

The CDA’s Director-General inspected the metro bus line and the greenbelts route along with the Director National Highway Authority (NHA) and discussed the plan to plant saplings in the upcoming plantation drive.

The climate change ministry would also provide its financial and technical assistance in the plantation drive to plant saplings to the Metro bus and to ensure maximum survival rate. According to the CDA, the buses plying on the metro route create greenhouse gases but plantation on both sides would help to restrict their impacts to a satisfactory level.

The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has time and again warned us against the rising air pollution in Islamabad especially due to increasing vehicles on roads. According to Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP), around 500,000 vehicles, including vans, trucks, buses, and other heavy transport vehicles are presently plying on the roads of the capital which is why the need to plant sapling along the metro bus’s line is an excellent initiative to curb air pollution and promote greener methods.

Moreover, hundreds of buses to and from different parts of the country use bus stations situated close to residential sectors of I-8 and G-9 in the capital. The official data showed that in Islamabad, about 90,000 heavy and light vehicles, diverted from GT Road, trespasses through Srinagar Highway, half of them are diesel-driven trucks, so the increase in air pollution is pretty justified. However, the CDA’s decision to plant saplings along the greenbelts of the metro bus is definitely a smart decision.

Prime Minister on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam, has ensured us that the government is taking all appropriate measures to improve air quality by using the best technology available and trying to build a clean and green Pakistan with this plantation drive and planting saplings across the Metro bus.

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