LAHORE: The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has sealed three illegal protein extracting units from Karol Ghati area here Tuesday.
The CDGL officials said the operation was done on the request of locals who complaints about the presence of illegal units. They said a special team raided the area on the directives of the DCO and sealed the units for playing havoc with environment by spreading bad odour and other diseases.
The officials said a large number of small units involved in the business of melting animal fat and extracting oil and proteins from them are established in various residential localities of Lahore, especially outskirts of the city. They said most of these factories were extracting oil from fat of dead animals by placing heavy cauldrons in the open, which emitted foul smell, causing pollution.
The locals had repeatedly asked the district administration and the EPD for the closure of the illegal business, but no serious effort was made by the authorities concerned in this regard, the officials said, adding the DCO took this issue seriously and constituted a special team to solve this issue.
The locals claimed that the units extracted fats for manufacturing soaps in Kasur, Lahore, Faisalabad and some other districts of the province. Talking to The News, a resident of Karol Ghati, alleged that citizens were suffering from TB, hepatitis, cancer and other dangerous diseases due to this business.