Smog control in Punjab

An AI model predicts seven-day smog patterns, allowing the authorities to prepare.

Nation building takes years, sometimes generations. Environmental rebuilding takes no less. It took us decades to poison our skies with unmanaged dust, unchecked exhaust, adulterated fuels and unplanned sprawl. However, corrective measures have begun, not with promises, but with systems. This shift has been possible under the political direction of the Punjab chief minister, whose government has placed environment at the centre of the province’s development agenda, and the administrative follow-through of chief secretary Punjab who ensured coordination across departments.