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| Unstoppable threat to environment haunting people | | Reckless Engineering | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 15: With no effective plan to put breaks on the day by day increasing pollution, the ensuing summer is going to be a dreadful as the reckless engineers are on full song to haunt people by immense noise of scooter workshops particularly in the walled city, had to bear the noise of engines, their emissions and other effluents at various automobile repair workshops.
"They park vehicles that come for repairs on already congested roads. Besides, they add to the noise and air pollution," said Anil Khanna, a resident Canal road.
No doubt, owners of such workshops were earning their livelihoods, but the authorities concerned shouldn't overlook the problems and health hazards being posed to residents, he added.
However, the city has witnessed mushrooming of automobile repair workshops in the past few years. "In the city, these workshops aggravate the problem of traffic jams and the traffic cops, too, can't do much considering the fact that workshop owners had to earn their livelihood," said Amit Sharma, a shopkeeper at Raghunath Bazaar.
The government in the past had shifted trucks and other load-carriers to Narwal, on the outskirts of the city, but it seemed that the government either can't foresee things, he added.
The Jammu city had witnessed a rapid expansion in population since the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1989, but the government didn't deem it fit to go for a master plan for Jammu, where displaced people from Kashmir, Doda and refugees from Pakistan had settled over the years, said Sharma.
He added that Jammu had always been neglected when it came to infrastructure development.
"On the one hand, the JMC is trying to beautify and decongest the city, but at the same time such workshops add to the problem of congestion," he said, adding that the JMC alone can't do much. Noise pollution is already a major threat to the residents of Jammu and Kashmir.
"The major causes of sound pollution is industrial and construction activities, generator sets, loudspeakers, music systems, blowing of horns and other mechanical devices which have adverse affects on the health of people", said Dr. Mehboob Ali. With increasing traffic rush in twin capital cities of Srinagar and Jammu with the number of vehicles in these each urban centres crossing the eight lakh mark, the noise pollution has become a major menace for the public.
The situation has become uncontrollable as the state does not have a strong law to deal with violators. |
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