Air quality concerns |
A new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) delivers a devastating verdict: Jammu and Kashmir fails every clean-air test across winter, summer, and post-monsoon seasons. Every monitored district exceeds India’s own national standards for PM2.5. This is not a seasonal discomfort. It is a public-health emergency.
For a place whose economy leans heavily on tourism unclean air is an environmental concern. A Valley that attracts millions of tourists cannot look like New Delhi in winter. Yet that is exactly where current trends point – albeit, situation in Delhi is worse........