Punjab Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb says provincial government is vigorously pursuing a strategy to mitigate the environmental pollution and improving the overall Air Quality Index across the province.

She was virtually addressing a "Breathe Pakistan Climate Change Conference" in Islamabad today.

The Minister said that government has plan to introduce fifteen hundred electric buses in the province.

She further said that Punjab has been declared a No-plastic province and Environmental Protection Agency is conducting massive surveillance to prohibit the use of plastic in the province.

Marriyum Aurangzeb said that eighty percent of the industry has been incorporated environmental control system in their industrial units.

She said that a Super Seeder Subsidy program has been launched with five point six billion rupees under the smog mitigation and air quality program.

The Minister said that agriculture department is convincing farming community to use super seeder machines instead of stubble burning.

Marriyum Aurangzeb said that curriculum is also being incorporated to sensitize the general public about the importance of clean environment and adverse impacts of climate change.