- Appreciate LG for installing Air Quality Index
JAMMU: Social activist Puneet Singh Jamwal on Friday raised a very serious issue of Climate Change and appealed the government to do something before the destruction strike. Jamwal also thanked Lt Governor Manoj Sinha’s administration for installing Air Quality Index (AQI) on VMD (Variable Message Display) Panels across the city under Smart City programme.
In a statement, Jamwal said that cloud bursts, frequent earthquakes, floods and humid conditions in the month of September has proved that climate change is a real problem and we have to do something before it takes the worst turn.
Welcoming the administration’s decision of installing Air Quality Index in Jammu City, Jamwal said that LG administration has done a condemnable job by giving real time information about pollution and air quality through variable message display at important rotaries and spots of the city.
Jamwal said that now fellow citizens of Jammu got to know the air quality of Jammu on the basis of 24 hourly monitoring. Which will also help authorities to maintain the Good result.
Jamwal, who first raised the demand for having a pollution index a few years back and ran a campaign to educate masses on climate change & environmental protection said that climate change doesn’t respect borders, climate change will at some point become irreversible so we have to do something now to preserve our planet.
He appealed to the administration to install more air quality control panels in different locations of Jammu and Kashmir to make people aware of effects of pollution and make them responsible towards ecology and degenerating air quality. He said the climate of our union territory is getting badly affected day by day due to climate change as there is no check on pollutants emitted by industries and vehicles.