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Residents seek steps to check noise pollution

Guntur: The residents of Pattabhipuram have appealed for urgent steps to check noise pollution in their locality which reached an intolerable level.

The A.P Pollution Control Board has mentioned in its report dated March 25, 2010 that noise level at Pattabhipuram was 90.2 decibels at 8 a.m and 94.5, 98.4 and 94.7 decibels at 1 p.m, 5 p.m and 9 p.m respectively.

The market near Municipal Corporation office, Sankar Vilas and Brindavan Gardens are the other places in Guntur city which recorded high noise levels.

Highest

The 98.4 and 94.7 decibels recorded at Pattabhipuram at 5 p.m and 9 p.m on the above date were the highest among the four places where monitoring was done by APPCB engineers, Lok Satta district co-convener N Aravind stated in a press release on behalf of the residents (of Pattabhipuram).

Loud speakers, places of worship and air horns were causing high levels of noise whose affects on adults and children were well known. Students could not concentrate on their studies and the problem to other sections manifested in myriad other ways.

Concerted efforts are needed to put an end to the health hazard created by a few thoughtless and inconsiderate individuals, residents pleaded in a memorandum to Ministers Kanna Lakshminarayana and D Manikya Vara Prasad, District Collector B Ramanjaneyulu, MLA Sk. Mastan Vali, Municipal Commissioner Ilambarithi and SP D.S. Chauhan.

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