Dust, Disease & Despair : Pollution Chokes Pampore’s Khrew

Khrew (Pampore), Oct 18: For residents of Khrew in Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, the growing pollution is no longer just an environmental concern but a daily struggle to breathe, as locals allege that industrial emissions are affecting their health, damaging vegetation and turning hundreds of kanals of land barren. Residents allege that dust from cement manufacturing, limestone mining and associated industrial activities settles over homes, roads, trees and fields, affecting their quality of life and threatening livelihoods dependent on agriculture and horticulture. Rising…