Population Pressure & Civic Mismanagement in Jammu City

The urban settlements of today, present the best possible portraits of unchecked continuous human interference in the physical environment. It has now been amply demonstrated that besides ever rising human numbers, the industrial march (overwhelmingly concentrated in cities) and the highly changed rather eco -non-friendly style of living are primarily responsible for worst type of environmental debasement and highly imbalanced ecological mosaic. It is also evidently clear that the humanity can be bailed out of this complex web only when the over ambitious and a varicious man living in these over crowdedly congested settlements (in the form of sky scrappers) puts brakes on his greed based socioeconomic activities. Thus it is imperative that critical evaluation and continuous assessment of the urban scenario is pursued by academicians, planners, policy makers and statesmen. In that context the present paper is a modest attempt at diagnosing the urban ills of Jammu, a town currently bursting with human population and traffic congestion, as also is suggesting some corrective measures and curative devices.