Noise pollution is a big problem and we don't even realise it

Air pollution is clearly a worrying issue in most Indian cities. In Delhi, the suffocating atmosphere lead to transport policy changes and an intervention and push by the apex court to clean up the city's air.
But what is also emerging as an equally troubling environmental peril is noise pollution. This is according to a report by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Read: Will a pollution tax and firecracker ban help Delhi breathe easy?
Here are few of the latest findings of the CPCB, according to the Real Time National Ambient Noise Monitoring Network, that was set up in 2011 across nine cities (which has a population of over 9 million) - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Navi Mumbai and Thane.
- Awareness programmes
- 'residential colonies should be constructed with such an architectural design as to reduce the level of noise reverberation'
- create more vegetation buffer zones and roadside plantation
- commercial activity should not be so close to residential colonies
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First published: 28 April 2016, 7:46 IST