MUMBAI: With a record 2,500 building approvals given by BMC last year totalling 15 crore sq ft of built-up area, citizens are increasingly complaining about dust and noise pollution in the city’s residential neighbourhoods. Early this week, police commissioner Sanjay Pandey said police stations must register such complaints from citizens.Mahim resident Penelope Tong, field work…
Category: Noise Pollution
Second training session Maharashtra traffic police on Noise PollutionMarch 2022
Third training session Maharashtra traffic police on Noise Pollution – March 2022
To hear for life, listen with care
Today is World Hearing Day 2022, and this is the World Health Organisation’s theme this year. It “will focus on the importance and means of hearing loss prevention through safe listening.”Globally, one in four or 2.5 billion people will lose hearing by 2050 according to the first-ever WHO Report on World Hearing Heath launched on…
The perils of ‘Horn Ok Please’: Noise, speeding and rash driving
By Sumaira Abdulali | Jan 31, 2022 The Maharashtra government recently doubled the fines on honking. Reducing noise from traffic is important to ensure road safety in India which has the highest numbers of road accident deaths in the world A shrill horn pierced my eardrums. I jumped: It sounded like a truck was upon…
Noise pollution from honking: The need for an enforcement drive – Times of India
The year 2022 may become a turning point when noise from honking finally becomes a mainstream enforcement drive of the Mumbai Police. Recently, the fines for honking and noise pollution were doubled by a notification to the Maharashtra Motor Vehicles Rules. The ‘Road Safety Month’ observed by the transport and police departments mid-January to mid-February…
Indian Medical Association 11th-12th December 2021
Mumbai witnessing steady decline in festival noise? – Times of India
Twenty years ago, people laughed when I spoke of the ill effects of noise pollution. Your ideas are elitist, they said. Indians love noise. Since then, First Information Reports filed by the Police on noise pollution under the Environment Protection Act have become the second highest (after wildlife) environmental crime in Maharashtra. In 2016, a…