JAMMU, Mar 10: Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, Mian Altaf informed the House that a 3-member committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Chairman, Pollution Control Board comprising its members as Magistrate and Police Officer of their respective areas to give suggestions how to control the noise pollution in twin capital cities of the State.
This Diwali, master blaster Sachin Tendulkar will appeal to school children to refrain from spending money on fire crackers and limit noise and air pollution during the festive season.
The state government will not be able to go ahead with its proposal to relax silence zone regulations imposed around educational institutions, anti-noise campaigners said.
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday started propping up sound barriers to insulate the Commonwealth Games Village of any noise coming from the railway tracks running along Akshardham Temple.
The structures, however, are a temporary arrangement to obstruct noise from the practice facilities and the apartments near the Village and will be pulled down after the Games are over.
The Ministry for Environment and Forests has nixed plans by various corporate houses and industrialists to construct rooftop helipads in various Indian cities on the grounds that they create noise pollution.
New Delhi: Just how noisy is noisy enough for an aircraft to be banned from landing at Indian airports so that people living nearby can sleep peacefully is an issue that
New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to work towards bringing decibel levels in and around Indira Gandhi International Airport down in accordance with international standards.
