Sir,
As per assessments made by the World Health Organisation, in respect of the levels of urban air pollution, our country has more than 50 percent of the total polluted cities of the world. In our neighbourhood, there are cities like Ludhiana, Amritsar, Khanna which have been ranked as most air polluted cities. Delhi is among the worst polluted cities in the world.
Our Jammu city is feared to be moving towards becoming a city with poor air quality and allowing the present trend could make things worse. Just watch the colour of the air on the roads busiest with traffic movements, it could be observed that it looks all filled with smoke. Not only is the magnitude and the level of traffic movement increasing day by day but the emission levels from the auto-mobiles of every nature, especially trucks, buses, metadors and even two wheelers being observed emitting unusually high levels of smoke on the streets. There is no effective checking and controlling methods on the roads about such vehicles so as to compulsorily make them pollution free and the owners made to realise the importance of periodically tune their vehicles to emit permissible levels of harmful gases on the roads. Usually when the situation goes out of control, only then are the concerned authorities waking up to act as lives of people especially the children could be at risk. It is high time we gave top most priority to improving air quality to keep air pollution levels within controllable levels and make our city air pollution free city.
Yours etc…
Vinay Gupta Talab Tillo, Jammu
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