PESHAWAR: On the directives of the Secretary Transport and Director Transport, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the Vehicle Emission Testing Station (VETS) carried out a four-day emission checking campaign against the smoking and old buses of the private schools. For this purpose, three teams comprising the experts of VETS Peshawar and Motor Vehicles Examiner along with a mobile testing laboratory were deployed on various roads of the district to check the emission system of the buses of private schools. During the campaign more than 300 buses of the private schools were checked out of which more than 200 were issued with warnings while the documents of over 52 vehicles were confiscated.
It was the second phase of the campaign against the vehicles of the private schools. In the first phase, the joint teams of VETS and Motor Vehicle Examiner had checked the buses of the private schools at the premises of schools and those found in violation of the international standard were issued directives for obtaining fitness certificates.
