Hyderabad is the third noisiest metro in India
The CPCB gathered data from 35 noise monitoring systems installed by it in nine metro cities for the period 2011-14.
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is the third noisiest metro in India after Mumbai and Lucknow as per a report by the Central Pollution Control Board.
The CPCB gathered data from 35 noise monitoring systems installed by it in nine metro cities for the period 2011-14. The findings were published in its report, Status of ambient noise levels in India.
As analysed by the CPCB, in the four years, Hyderabad had the third highest cases of noise levels going beyond the prescribed standards at its noise monitoring systems. During the same period Bengaluru and Kolkata had the least number of violations.
The noise monitoring systems in Hyderabad are at two commercial zones of Abids and Punjagutta, the Jeedimetla industrial zone, the silence zone at the zoo and the Jubilee Hills residential zone.The noise at Abids, Punjagutta and the zoo reached industrial levels. At all these places, the noise levels exceeded the prescribed limits of the CPCB in every reading. This is the fallout of government departments like the Pollution Control Board, traffic police and transport, not acting to curb noise pollution in the city.