SECUNDERABAD: Soon, officials of Secunderabad Cantonment Board will impose hefty penalties for violating noise pollution.
Officials who received numerous complaints from the residential colonies to the abutting function halls regarding noise pollution due to bursting of crackers and heavy volume of sounding system, during marriages and other occasions, have moved a proposal of imposing penalties, at a SCB Board meeting held in Secunderabad Cantonment on Friday.
The president cantonment Board, Secunderabad, Brigadier Abhijit Chandra has suggested penalties including, Rs 10,000 will be imposed against violators for the first offense, and subsequently, Rs 25,000 for the second offense and seizure of the property concerned for third time offense.
Brigadier also asked the SCB chief executive officer, B Ajith Reddy to come up with these penalties to approve in the next board meeting and advised also to constitute a joint team of officials including SCB and traffic cops, to impose the penalties against violators.
Before this, CEO, Ajith Reddy also explained reasons for noise pollution and said "heavy disturbance is occurring during the night times and now, we have categorized into four zones such as industrial zone, commercial zone, residential zone and silence zone and fixed certain decibels, which stipulated by the Central government and T S Pollution Control Board".
According to the CEO, the commercial space/public space has to restrict the volume of sound so that it does not exceed by not more than 10 decibels and noise from the private space would not exceed more than 5 decibels.
