The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders.

The City police are planning to monitor noise pollution at the traffic junctions using hand-held noise meters in order to record the decibel level and penalise the offenders.

NGT Orders Compliance With Norms

Pune: High-performance sports bikes and cars are in for a sound-check with the Pune bench of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone) directing the government to ensure that all vehicles plying on roads, including two, three and four-wheelers, conform to the permissible standards of vehicular noise.

The Gujarat government is yet to initiate a probe into the violation of testing norms by American carmaker General Motors in India despite instructions from the central government in November last

C S Rajan Blasts JDA For Poorly Planning Some Top Projects

Jaipur: Additional chief secretary (Infrastructure) C S Rajan on Wednesday vented ire against the officials of Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) and other departments for poorly planning some of the top-notch infrastructural projects in the city.

Environmentalists on Monday criticized finance minister P Chidambaram for his budget proposal to cut taxes on cars — specifically the high-polluting diesel guzzler SUVs — and said the government wa

Environmentalists have slammed finance minister P. Chidambaram’s decision to cut taxes on cars, with the fuel-guzzling SUVs enjoying the biggest slash.

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has slammed the new budget proposal to cut taxes on cars with fuel-guzzling and polluting SUVs enjoying the biggest slash.

In last year's budget, finance minister Chidambaram had, responding to the crippling energy crisis, hiked the excise on SUVs from 27 percent to 30 percent. But this year, buckling under pressure from the automobile industry, he has cut excise across all vehicle segments.