Population Pressure & Civic Mismanagement in Jammu City Kumar Arun1, Singh Surat2, Nagari Sarita3, Sharma Cheshta4 1Department of Geography, Govt. M.A.M. College, Jammu 2Department of Environmental Sciences, Govt. M.A.M. College, Jammu 3Department of Geography, University of Jammu 4Department of Sociology, G.N.D.U., Amritsar Online published on 5 September, 2013. Abstract 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. Top Keywords Eco-non-friendly, Urban Ills, City Scape, Ubiquitous, Civic Amenities. Top |