JAIPUR
"In Jaipur city, there are no major air polluting industrial units. Most are small-scale textile units and cause water pollution, not air pollution. The main culprit of air pollution is vehicles," says Rajesh Thakuria, regional officer, rpcb. According to Balakant Sharma, statistical officer at the transport office in Jaipur, the vehicular population in the capital of Rajasthan has increased six times between 1980-81 and 1998-99 - from 81,267 to 544,556. As much as 78 per cent of the vehicles in the city today are two-wheelers.
Jaipur accounts for over 25 per cent of the total vehicles and the pollution load in the state, according to the rpcb's 1996-97 annual report. The total pollution load on account of vehicular pollution is estimated to be around 280 tonnes per day in Jaipur, the report says. According to cpcb data, the maximum spm level recorded in the city in 1997 was almost three times the permissible limit, with the maximum level of nox exceeding the permissible limit at 108
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