Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
CSE does noise level survey, finds many areas in Delhi crossing the norms. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Pollution Monitoring Lab tracks noise levels in Delhi and finds them to be very high in some places. Constant exposure to noise can have serious health implications, ranging from deafness to …
In a bid to curb sound pollution, most of the mandals in Kolhapur city preferred playing traditional instruments this year, in place of high decibel sound systems, during the immersion of Ganesh idols on Sunday. The local police, various social organisations and the media had relentlessly campaigned for the last …
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to construct noise barriers on all new flyovers throughout the city. However, experts have questioned the method in which the authority is planning to curb noise pollution. In its meeting on Thursday, the authority cleared the proposal for installing sound barriers. …
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will allot Rs 1,113 crore for road-widening and flyovers. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday, which also saw MMRDA formally approve implementation of the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link Project (MTHL) on a public-private partnership …
Noise pollution due to fire crackers during Diwali festival has been identifies as one of the major noise pollution problems in the country. It is therefore necessary to conduct noise level monitoring during this period of understand the level of noise pollution. Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has conducted an extensive …
New regulations have been drafted to be introduced to the National Environment Act to control noise pollution caused by the tooting of vehicle horns, Central Environmental Authority chairman Charitha Herath told the Daily News yesterday. He said that according to the new regulations, the maximum level for a vehicle tooting …
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. It has also put the onus of monitoring and reporting of erring airlines on the airport operator, on a monthly basis. The Directorate General of Civil …
Infrastructure and construction design and engineering environmental issues environmental pollution As the debate on aircraft noise affecting people staying close to airports gathers momentum in India, Dr M. L. Munjal, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and head of the National Committee on Noise Pollution Control, outlines the various issues …
Thanks to the intervention of the Delhi High Court following a plea filed by residents against unrelenting noise at Jantar Mantar, the hustle bustle at the Capital
After acquiring land from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay for the road-widening project for the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR), the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to install noise barriers along the IIT compound at Powai. MMRDA officials said after the land acquisition and road widening …
Putting an end to the noise pollution caused by electricity generators in market areas, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today ordered that no electricity generators will be allowed to function in market areas of Chandigarh, Mohali and Ludhiana till further orders. The directions were passed during the resumed hearing …
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 …
MUMBAI: Increasing noise pollution is an environmental issue city residents are finding difficult to ignore. Observing that it was a matter for which "abundant precaution'' has to be taken, the Bombay HC recently directed superintendent of police, Thane, to depute an officer of the rank of deputy superintendent of police …
The residents of Haripur District are exposed to the increasing noise and air pollution caused by vehicular traffic especially the tri-wheelers. The noise from these vehicles is much beyond the permissible limit set under the National Environmental Quality Standards NEQS, medical experts and citizens say. The ever increasing number of …
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. He will be assisted by film actor Nana Patekar, world-renowned scientist Jayant Narlikar, social-activist Dr Prakash Amte and planning commission member …
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. They added that orders by Bombay high court and Supreme Court, which laid down the definition of silence zones, were passed before the state government …
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 …
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. Acting on petitions by environmental groups, Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has stayed proposals by the Mumbai …
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
