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| Carnival festivities, but sans civic demeanor | | Diwali pledge vanishes up in smoke | |
Mishu Gupta
Nov 6
Mounds of litter, remnants of overnight burst crackers and stinking heaps of garbage welcomed the city of temples the following morning after Jammuites had celebrated the festival of lights –Diwali.
The festivity of the carnival aside, the ethical demeanor of the people seems to have lost into the hopelessness as none among one sported the civic sense to do away with the piles of waste in the morning except moaning on a grin.
Days ahead of Diwali, the government as well as the social and allied organizations had pledged to celebrate the occasion as eco-friendly, but the overnight late hours louder bursting of crackers left the skies smoke filled and heavily toxic that contained the collateral damaging effect health-wise also.
The stink emanating from the residual heaps littered all over the place in the city presented a gory picture besides the pledge thrown to winds by the people who “whole-heartedly” participated in the fireworks.
“For the whole night people were bursting crackers and in the morning nobody seemed bothered to clear the leftover rubbish,” said Manish Kumar, a resident of Panjtirthi “The entire area has been turned into a garbage dump as wherever you walk, you find waste of crackers,” he added.
Jammu, city of temples, is also known for the use of huge amount of crackers during Diwali.
This year despite the pledge not to use crackers by students’ organisations, including students of Jammu University, there was massive use of crackers to ‘celebrate’ Diwali.
“There was no decline in the use of crackers this year. Instead the bursting of crackers continued for the whole night,” said Mula Ram, a resident of Nai Basti Jammu.
“To celebrate Diwali people had come out on the roads.They were bursting crackers on roads and in streets, but nobody came here in the morning to clean the litter,” said Pawan Sharma , a resident of Jain Bazar.
According to Pollution Control Board officials, the air pollution level in the city had increased many times after last night’s Diwali celebrations.
“Since last the night pollution level in Jammu has increased many times and huge amount of toxic gases released by crackers have added to the pollution in the city.”
An official of the state Pollution Control Board told ET, “Not only air pollution level increased, but water and land pollution has also increased.”
The official feared pollution level could go up as people continue bursting crackers for a few days even after Diwali.
“The bursting of the left-over crackers can increase pollution in the city,” the official said.
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