The recognition of noise as an environmental problem and its impact both on community and occupational environment is rapidly growing. The present survey is aimed to report about the existing noise environment in Roorkee. A cross section survey of population in Roorkee points out that main sources of noise pollutions are automobiles and loudspeakers.
Only the dog seems to be paying attention to the words written on Chittaranjan Avenue. Constant honking by drivers on the stretch disturbs patients in Medical College and Hospital and students in educational institutions in the area.
THE penalty for excessive honking is set to be increased to Rs 2,000 for every offence. According to an affidavit filed by the State government before the Bombay High Court in response to a PIL filed by city-based NGO Awaaz Foundation on the issue of noise pollution, the State Transport Department is planning to increase the fine for honking in silence zones from the current Rs 100 to Rs 2000.
At a conference in France's noisy capital, European acoustical scientists admitted that they and most policymakers are not close to meeting an 18 July deadline to develop action plans to shush the European Union's (E.U's) largest cities. The action plan deadline stems from a 2002 E.U. antinoise directive.
The city's cellphone services could get a jolt if the Delhi Pollution Control Committee's latest move to curb noise and air pollution is taken to its logical end. Waking up to the hazards of cellphone towers in residential areas, the committee has sent out notices to the seven cellphone service providers in Delhi to set things right in three weeks.
By Floriano Lobo The Goa Environment Action Group, a NGO which has been spear-heading the fight to control loud music noise pollution in the state for the past 10 years and more welcomes the news reports that Bosco George, SP North, has taken note of this menace seriously which is disrupting the
