Impact of Industrialisation on Surrounding Environment: A Comparative Study in the Pulwama District of J&K State, India

A comparative study was carried out to assess the impact of industrialisation on surrounding environment in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir state. In this study, the sampling was done with the help of stratified random sampling method by selecting 300 respondents from all the three cement industrial sites located at three different places in the study area. In this study, the respondents were purposively selected on the basis of location of nearness i.e. within the 2kms around their respective cement industrial sites. The study concludes that the surrounding environment of the respondents have been affected in either Occurrence of unwanted noise or even Contamination of water bodies due to the incessant contact of industrial emissions created by cement industrial units in the study area.