The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) is coordinating with local bodies to monitor compliance to the two-hour timings specified by the State Government for bursting crackers on the day of Deepavali celebration.
“Besides City Corporation, municipalities and town panchayats, we have also taken the help of residents' welfare organisations to conform to the stipulated decibel levels in residential and commercial areas,” R. Lakshmi, District Environmental Engineer, Tiruchi, said. The local bodies have been requested to earmark common areas for bursting crackers.
As a follow-up to the meeting with the TNPCB officials, a few residents' associations including the Siddhi Vinayagar Nala Sangam are creating awareness on the permitted decibel levels.
There is conformity on the part of manufacturers to produce crackers within the maximum allowable decibel in residential localities which is 125, and hence, monitoring compliance may not be difficult, it is learnt.
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has installed devices at Thillai Nagar, for recording the Ambient Noise Level Survey on October 31 and November 6. The ambient air quality survey that will be carried out till November 14 commenced on October 31 at Gandhi Market and Ramalinga Nagar.
The report will be sent to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board.
