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India, Crackdown on soaring decibels
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NAGPUR: The city police will deploy five special squads, each equipped with decibel meter devices for monitoring noise pollution levels, during the forthcoming Diwali.
Recently, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board officials conducted a workshop for senior police officers to impart basic training on handling the decibel meters. On Tuesday, 40 more police personnel will undergo the same training at the MPCB office at Udyog Bhawan.
Senior police officers said the city police regulations, framed under the guidelines of Supreme Court, will not permit chain firecrackers to have more 1,000 sparklers. The decibel level for each constituent of the chain crackers will be limited to 105 decibels while atom bombs will not be allowed to produce more than 125 decibels at four-meter distance from where they are being fired.
“On Diwali, crackers can be burnt till midnight while the cut-off time on the other days would ideally be 10 pm," said Prabhat Kumar, additional CP (region).
Kumar, along with zonal deputy commissioner of police Madhukar Pandey, will discuss security issues, licensing conditions and Supreme Court guidelines with those selling crackers.
The additional CP also said that police officers of the sub-inspector level will lead the zonal squads that will monitor cracker-related complaints.
Apart from its own monitoring programme, the MPCB will provide technical assistance to the city police in conducting drives and registering cases of decibel violation.
“After 2005, the MPCB has once again resumed training the police officers about the technicalities involved in measuring noise pollution. They will conduct a joint drive with the police during Diwali to study the noise pollution pattern. The reports will be sent to the ministry concerned," said V M Motghare, regional officer, MPCB.
Babasaheb Kangale, joint commissioner of police, said:"Citizens are always welcome to inform the police if they are inconvenienced by crackers." |
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