Govt, residents need to clean things up: Omar on Srinagar air quality

Srinagar, Feb 24 : Reacting to a study that pollution in this summer capital hit a dangerous level during winters according to a survey for 2013-2014, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said both the government and the residents have an obligation to clean things up.

'Come to Srinagar & inhale our polluted air' isn't the advertising slogan we should be aiming for. Governments & all of us residents have an obligation to clean things up,' the working president of National Conference (NC), posted on micro-blogging site Twitter.

'PM 2.5 levels in winter touched 348 μg/m³ in 2013-2014, with the permissible limit at 60 μg/m³. The domestic coal usage accounts for 84 per cent of the emissions, followed by the transport sector and fuel wood burning,' a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune in collaboration with the University of Kashmir, had stated