PESHAWAR: Vehicle Emission Testing System (VETS) Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a three-day campaign against smoke emitting vehicles has checked the emission system of 441 vehicles. The campaign has been launched on the directives of the Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr. Shehzad Bangash, who had directed the Secretary Transport & Mass Transit to control smoke emitted by the vehicles. In light of the directives, the Secretary Transport & Mass Communication, directed VETS to accelerate operation against smoke emitting vehicles across the province and particularly in the provincial metropolis Peshawar. For the purpose, VETS has increased the number of its teams in Peshawar and constituted three separate teams. VETS in collaboration with Traffic Police is carrying out checking of vehicles on various spots of interior city, Charsadda Road, Khyber Road and Kohat Road. Out of the total 441 vehicles checked since Monday 259 had been passed while 182 failed/ challan. The checked vehicles included 390 commercial and 51 private vehicles. During the campaign, the teams of VETS will check environment polluting vehicles and will not only challan them, rather will also confiscate its registration and other documents. APP
