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| SPCB tightens the noose around noise polluters | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18: Jammu city is fast turning into a city of noise Pollution especially due to rise in vehicular population.
Levels of noise Pollution in the city have reached alarming proportions. Honking of Horns all around coupled with disorderly maintained old and out dated vehicles is causing lot of nuisance to the people living adjoining city roads and adjacent to high vehicular density areas.
In a week long study conducted by J&K SPCB at various traffic intersections and roundabouts of Jammu district under the supervision of Shally Ranjan, IFS Regional Director, J&K SPCB with a team headed by Kuldeep Bhan I/C vehicular pollution Jammu region and supported by Raman Gupta, Field Inspector, have come up with some alarming results vis-a-vis noise Pollution.
The average noise levels as monitored against permissible levels of maximum 65 db for commercial areas have been recorded as : Panama Chowk - 76.87 db, Narwal Chowk 78.73 db. Gandhi Nagar opposite Army Gate 81.25 db, Gumat Chowk 81.06 db, Indira Chowk 74.80 db / Medical College Bakshi Nagar 75.88 db, Ambphalla Chowk 79.31 Satwari chowk- 81.28 db.
What is compounding the already grave problem is the smoke released by these vehicles. In a similar recently conducted drive by SPCB with Traffic Police 264 no. of vehicles were intercepted out of which 85 were Challaned for not having valid PUC. Huge smoke and sounds produced by knocking of outdated engines is increasingly becoming unbearable by the day.
It is assumed that people of all age groups can fast experience a dip in quality of hearing power and some in old age groups are getting exposed to health hazards like anxiety, hypertension and depression due to constantly agonizing noise around. |
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