Traffic police's role stressed to check noise pollution

2 July 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Nirapad Development Foundation (NDF) and Green Mind Society yesterday demanded involvement of traffic police in enforcing the Noise Pollution Control Rules in the capital. The two organizations staged a sit-in in front of the Jatiya Press Club where they said the traffic police could punish car drivers for unnecessary honking. The speakers said noise pollution is very harmful to both physical and mental health. It reduces hearing capacity and triggers headache and insomnia. Chairman of the NDF Ibnul Sayed Rana said due to lack of awareness, drivers of vehicles honk excessively. Unabated use of brick-crushing machines in different residential areas are going on, he added. President of Puran Nagarbashi Sangathan Haji Ansar Ali said cars use horns even stuck in traffic lights. He demanded replacing hydraulic horn of every car. To cut the increasing levels of noise pollution created by motor vehicles, industries and amplifiers, the government in 2006 formulated the Noise Pollution Control Rules under the Environment Conservation Act, 1995. Executive Director of Green Mind Society Md Amir Hasan, Vice-President Mizanur Rahman, Faruk Hossain, Adviser of NDF Sarkar Based Siddique and members Khalilur Rahman and Ashraf Siddique addressed the sit-in programme.