The consent fees being charged by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for setting up new industries and operating them has been raised with immediate effect.

The consent fee being charged by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for setting up new industries and operating them has been revised upwards with immediate effect.

In September last year, the High Court had asked the Maharashtra government and the Thane Municipal Corporation to ensure that Ganesh and Janmashtami pandals follow noise regulations, and had directed that a committee be formed in this regard. On Wednesday, the court criticised the inaction of the committee which was created to come up with a plan to avoid chaos during festivals.

Environment officials penalised yesterday a textile washing factory in the city's Rupnagar for polluting a water body and three real estate developers for creating noise pollution at their respecti

The Department of Environment (DoE) on August 8 fined four business organisations Tk 6.5 lakh for causing noise pollution through generators at Gulshan in the capital.

Following Delhi High Court’s intervention, the air safety regulator has prescribed maximum permissible noise levels in the vicinity of the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

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