About EPA Punjab
EPA Punjab goes beyond traditional regulation. We partner with industries, communities, and governments to enforce environmental standards, foster sustainable growth, and build resilience against climate challenges.
Where Regulatory Clarity Meets Applied Action
From tackling smog in urban centers to ensuring strict adherence to the Punjab Environmental Quality Standards (PEQS), EPA provides the scientific data and enforcement muscle required to drive meaningful transformation across the province.
Our Core Domains
Air Quality & Smog Control
Frontline regulatory and enforcement initiatives targeting smog reduction, continuous industrial telemetry, 100% brick kiln zig-zag conversion, and thermal drone surveillance across Punjab.
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Transformative Impact in Action
Discover how EPA Punjab has successfully partnered with industrial sectors to implement green technologies and reduce emissions.
100% Brick Kiln Conversion to Green Zig-Zag Technology
Eliminating hazardous black carbon emissions statewide by mandating induced draft zig-zag design with fuel efficiency enhancements across 7,800+ kilns.
Central Environmental Command Room & Telemetry Center
Unifying continuous emission telemetry, ambient air stations, satellite crop monitoring, and citizen complaints into an automated command matrix.
Bio-Medical Hospital Waste Barcode Tracking System
End-to-end QR/barcode chain-of-custody tracking across 450+ hospitals, ensuring toxic healthcare waste reaches licensed incinerators.
Urban Miyawaki Forests & Canal Green Buffers Expansion
Planting high-density native botanical reserves across Lahore and industrial corridors to trap airborne particulate smog.
Anti-Smog Rapid Enforcement Squads
Round-the-clock mobile enforcement squads deploying across industrial belts to seal non-compliant units and issue instant stop-work orders.
Online Industrial Effluent & CEMS Telemetry
Real-time wastewater telemetry linked to the provincial command center, triggering automatic alerts for ETP failures and illegal dumping.
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Featured Recognition
Named Leader in 2023 ISO/IEC Audit
Recognized for maintaining the highest tier of diagnostic accuracy in environmental laboratory testing.
First Provincial EPA Certified for AI Compliance
Achieved the international standard for integrating real-time air quality sensors with automated enforcement systems.
Explore Our Organization
Our Leadership
Meet the administrative and technical leaders: Secretary EPD, Director General, and Additional Directors General.
Meet Leaders →Operational WingsDirectorates & Sections
Diagnostic laboratories, EIA approvals, air modeling, legal enforcement, and specialized technical units.
Explore Sections →Institutional EvolutionHistory & Mandate
Tracing Punjab's environmental protection journey from EPCO 1975 to the modern regulatory agency empowered by PEPA 1997.
Read History →Field NetworkDistrict Offices (36)
Interactive directory and locations for all 36 District Field Offices and the Provincial Headquarters in Lahore.
View Directory →Overview — Environment Protection Department, Punjab
Environmental degradation is escalating rapidly at the national and global level. Environment Protection Department (EPD), Punjab was established to combat this problem. EPD Punjab created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which is responsible for the protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of the environment; the prevention and control of pollution; and the promotion of sustainable development in the province.
EPA is building on its successes through reliable and effective legislation about environment protection and high-quality service delivery. EPA sustains qualitative and quantitative standards for the discharge of effluents, wastes, air emissions or noise — either for general applicability or for a particular area or from a particular source — in the form of Punjab Environmental Quality Standards (PEQS) and other standards established under the laws, rules and regulations.
History
To ensure control, reduction and elimination of pollution in Punjab, the Environmental Pollution Control Organisation (EPCO) was created in the Public Health Engineering Department, Punjab in 1975. On July 01, 1987, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Punjab was formed — making Punjab the first province in Pakistan to create an EPA.
On December 31, 1996, a separate administrative unit — Environment Protection Department (EPD) — was formed under the Government of the Punjab. On February 11, 1997, the Federal Government promulgated the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act (PEPA) 1997, under which EPA Punjab undertakes its functions.
Our Sections
EPA Punjab operates through the following sections: Administration | Complaint Cell | Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) | Environmental Laboratories | Implementation | Legal | Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) | Research and Investigation | Technology Transfer | Directorate of Environmental Health, Dengue Control and Hazardous Waste.
Our Offices
EPA Punjab operates from its Headquarters at Green Building, 27 College Road, Gulberg II, Lahore, with over 36 District (Field) Offices across all districts of Punjab. EPD Punjab also houses the Secretariat, EPA Directorate, Strategic Planning & Implementation Unit (Punjab Green Development Program), and the Climate Policy and Technology Center (CPTC).