Jammu
city beset with problems
Sir,
Jammu city
is called the City of Temples and some
have recently given it the name as city
of Fast Food Restaurants due to the
mushrooming growth of such restaurants.
Moreover the city is growing rapidly, so
is its problems, whether it is traffic
management, pollution control of law and
order, everything is in disarray. Let us
take the case of traffic management,
everybody knows how traffic is managed in
the city. Firstly you will not see
traffic policemen in sufficient numbers
at important, busy crossings. If there
happens to be any traffic policeman at a
crossing, he is looking as a mute
spectator.
Pollution
is another alarming problem in Jammu
city. The exhaust emissions particularly
from trucks, buses and matadors is so
alarming that our pollution control board
is doing nothing about it. It was asked
to show pollution under control
certificate on two occasions while
driving in my 1999 model car but what
about these overloaded trucks which are
emitting the huge quantity of black
smoke, polluting the whole surrounding
environment. The inhalation of such a
polluted air is highly dangerous for all
of us because it causes various kinds of
lung diseases. But who cares about all
these things. Now-a-days there is heavy
rush of patients at the hospitals/clinics
of chest diseases doctors and a major
contributor for this is alarming
pollution levels.
Our State
may also be at number one position in the
country in terms of power, water thefts
and illegal constructions. Majority of
power, water connection in our State are
illegal, which is known to one and all.
But the Government is not doing enough to
legalise all these illegal connections.
This is because the employees of the
concerned department get monthly HAFTHA
from these illegal connection holders.
Similar is the case with water thefts. It
you have to get a new water connection,
you can get the work done by employing a
private plumber and the departmental
Lineman will demand for his share of
money. You can see people have drilled
holes on the main water pipes, if it
happens to be above ground level
particularly near Juggi basties and water
flows there like fountain and moreover
through these open holes, water also gets
contaminated but who cares because law
enforces are non-existent here.
All this
is due to the alarming levels of
corruption here because all these law
enforcers know that by implementing the
laws, they are not going to earn money
while as by forcing people to break laws,
they can earn like anything. So it is
requested to the concerned authorities
and citizens of Jammu to reverse this
trend. Otherwise lawlessness may prevail
in every sphere of the society.
Yours
etc...
Ashok Bangroo
Pandoka Colony, Paloura,
Jammu.
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