(1) If the authority is satisfied from the report of an officer incharge of a police station or other information received by him 5[including from the complainant] that it is necessary to do so in order to prevent annoyance, disturbance, discomfort or injury or risk person who dwell 1 Ins. by S.O.50 (E), dated 11.01.2010 2 Ins. by S.O. 50 (E), dated 11.01.2010 (w.e.f. 11.01.2010) 3 Ins.by S.O.50(E), dated 11.01.2010 (w.e.f. 11.01.2010) 4 Ins.by S.O.50(E), dated 11.01.2010 (w.e.f.11.01.2010) 5 Ins.by S.O.1569 (E), dated 19.9.2006 (w.e.f. 19.06.2010) The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 914 or occupy property on the vicinity, he may, by a written order issue such directions as he may consider necessary to any person for preventing, prohibiting, controlling or regulating:
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(a) the incidence or continuance in or upon any premises of –
(i) any vocal or instrumental music,
(ii) sounds caused by playing, beating, clashing, blowing or use in any manner whatsoever of any instrument including loudspeakers, 1[public address systems, horn, construction equipment, appliance or apparatus] or contrivance which is capable of producing or re-producing sound, or 2[(iii) sound caused by bursting of sound emitting fire crackers, or]
(b) The carrying on in or upon, any premises of any trade, a vocation or operation or process resulting in or attended with noise.
(2) The authority empowered under sub-rule (1) may, either on its own motion, or on the application of any person aggrieved by an order made under sub-rule (1), either rescind, modify or alter any such order:
Provided that before any such application is disposed of, the said authority shall afford to the applicant 3[and to the original complainant, as the case may be] an opportunity of appearing before it either in person or by a person representing him and showing cause against the order and shall, if it rejects any such application either wholly or in part, record its reasons for such rejection.
1 Subs. by S.O.50(E), dated 11.01.2010 (w.e.f. 11.01.2010) 2 Ins.by S.O.50 (E), dated 11.01.2010. (w.e.f. 11.01.2010) 3 Ins.by S.O.1569 (E) dated 19.9.2006. (w.e.f.19.09.2006) 915 The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000
SCHEDULE [See rule 3(1) and 4(1)] Ambient Air Quality Standards in Respect of Noise Area Code Category of Area/Zone Limits in dB(A) Leq* Day Time Night Time (A) Industrial area 75 70 (B) Commercial area 65 55 (C) Residential area 55 45 (D) Silence Zone 50 40 Note: -
1. Day time shall mean from 6.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m.
2. Night time shall mean from 10.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m.
3. 1[***]
4. Mixed categories of areas may be declared as one of the four abovementioned categories by the competent authority.
*dB(A) Leq denotes the time weighted average of the level of sound in decibels on scale A which is relatable to human hearing.
A “decibel” is a unit in which noise is measured.
“A”, in dB(A) Leq, denotes the frequency weighting in the measurement of noise and corresponds to frequency response characteristics of the human ear.
Leq: It is an energy mean of the noise level over a specific period.
[F. No Q-14012/1/96-CPA] VIJAI SHARMA, Jt. Secy.
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide number, S.O.123(E), dated 14th February, 2000 and subsequently amended vide S.O.1046(E), dated 22nd November, 2000, S.O.
1088(E), dated 11th October, 2002, S.O. 1569(E), dated the 19th September, 2006, S.O.50(E), dated 11.01.2010 and were last amended vide S.O. 50 (E), dated the 11th January, 2011.
1 Omitted by S.O. 2555 (E), dated 10.08.2017 (w.e.f. 10.08.2017).