NOISE POLLUTION ASSESSMENT IN GREATER AGARTALA CITY: A CASE STUDY

Pulakesh Sen, Abir Bhattacherjee, Abhijit Das, Debabrata Das

Abstract: The influx of people towards the cities and urban centre has resulted rapid urbanization across the country. The large rate of urbanization coupled with population migration changed the environmental scenario of many towns & cities very abruptly. Management of municipal solid waste, reduction of air pollution from various sources, water and wastewater management, control and abatement of noise pollution etc are the big challenges. Besides, reckless use of horns and continuous vehicular movement results the noise pollution problem in many cities. The present study is an attempt to evaluate noise pollution load of Agartala city due to urbanization activities and its detrimental effect on the human health and environment. The study also seek a solution from the noise pollution problems of the Agartala City by making certain restriction on the use of sound generating instruments, mass awareness among people and regular enforcement of Noise Pollution (Prevention & Control) Rules 2000.

Keywords: Urbanization, Noise pollution, Equivalent noise level, Evaluation, Agartala city

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0309063