By Niranjan Raje
We shifted to Gurugram from Delhi’s Asiad village some 10 years in the past after my superannuation from Indian Oil. Although we did leave out Delhi, we quickly settled down in the inexperienced surrounding of Sushant Lok I. Gurugram used to be a inexperienced and quiet position, with good enough woodland quilt over the Aravalis.
Today regardless of it being labelled as ‘Millennium City’, it has turn into a polluted, concrete jungle. Lakhs of bushes have been indiscriminately cut over the years to make manner for roads, markets, malls and condominiums.
There is an instantaneous wish to cope with two primary assets — mud pollution and vehicular emission — of air pollution. The following points wish to be addressed:
Traffic control
There are a lot of dysfunctional traffic lights, causing traffic jams at many places and thus expanding pollution.
Inadequate penetration of CNG
A large number of taxis and autos are still diesel-run, which reasons a spike in air pollution ranges.
Faulty energy infrastructure
Faulty energy infrastructure leads to energy outages even in maximum posh areas of the town. Residents are, due to this fact, compelled to make use of diesel-powered generators that upload to pollution.
Dust pollution
Gurugram is a dusty town. One can see mud in all places, be it in open grounds of Sector 29 or Gurgaon-Faridabad street, where building particles is lying in all places. The waste from demolition is lying even in residential colonies like Sushant Lok and DLF stages in open plots mostly belonging to Huda.
Normally, the wind speed helps in bringing down pollution ranges, however in Gurugram that will increase the focus of particulate subject as mud is in all places. Most roads are dug up for building, including those by way of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Even govt companies like NHAI have been flouting the norms set out by way of the Supreme Court and NGT all through building. No barriers have ever been erected.
(The author is a former member of EPCA)
We shifted to Gurugram from Delhi’s Asiad village some 10 years in the past after my superannuation from Indian Oil. Although we did leave out Delhi, we quickly settled down in the inexperienced surrounding of Sushant Lok I. Gurugram used to be a inexperienced and quiet position, with good enough woodland quilt over the Aravalis.
Today regardless of it being labelled as ‘Millennium City’, it has turn into a polluted, concrete jungle. Lakhs of bushes have been indiscriminately cut over the years to make manner for roads, markets, malls and condominiums.
There is an instantaneous wish to cope with two primary assets — mud pollution and vehicular emission — of air pollution. The following points wish to be addressed:
Traffic control
There are a lot of dysfunctional traffic lights, causing traffic jams at many places and thus expanding pollution.
Inadequate penetration of CNG
A large number of taxis and autos are still diesel-run, which reasons a spike in air pollution ranges.
Faulty energy infrastructure
Faulty energy infrastructure leads to energy outages even in maximum posh areas of the town. Residents are, due to this fact, compelled to make use of diesel-powered generators that upload to pollution.
Dust pollution
Gurugram is a dusty town. One can see mud in all places, be it in open grounds of Sector 29 or Gurgaon-Faridabad street, where building particles is lying in all places. The waste from demolition is lying even in residential colonies like Sushant Lok and DLF stages in open plots mostly belonging to Huda.
Normally, the wind speed helps in bringing down pollution ranges, however in Gurugram that will increase the focus of particulate subject as mud is in all places. Most roads are dug up for building, including those by way of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Even govt companies like NHAI have been flouting the norms set out by way of the Supreme Court and NGT all through building. No barriers have ever been erected.
(The author is a former member of EPCA)
From a green place to a polluted, concrete jungle
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Reviewed by Kailash
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May 04, 2018
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