What has been done to bring noise levels to mandated 45-65 db
Environmental protection act and supreme court orders in WP #20050718 mandating 45-65 db levels and no honking or noises between 10pm to 6 am, to protect public health, wellbeing, and environment are one decade old.
The EPA enforcement authorities-Karnataka state pollution control board, police, Transport department etc have failed to effectively implement the orders against, offenders like vehicles fitted with airhorns, musical horns, altered silencers etc and especially against the manufacturers and dealers of these torture instruments.
Every noise per second affects 8000 uninvolved innocent public in a densely populated city like Bangalore(24000/sq km).
Repeated complaints petitions over the years to the authorities have not resulted in any concrete stringent steps to tackle the problem. They need to do it on a war footing otherwise they should be liable for contempt of court proceedings and consequences on an ongoing basis until the orders are complied with.
One can see that the quality of life will dramatically improve with enforced silence taking us up immediately to the civilized society level from a barbaric age.
Sir,
It seems that the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board is mainly responsible for air and water pollution. If you suggest an appropriate authority in this matter we can file an RTI to find out if there have been any actions taken on the violators of the Supreme Court guidelines.
Regards,
Anil – RTI Anonymous Team Member
1 karnataka state pollution control board
and
2 commissioner transport for specific action taken against
a. owners of vehicles fitted with illegal horns b. modified illegal silencers c. manufacturers and dealers of illegal horns d. tracking of repeat offenders. e.imposing mandatory penalties the more stringent Environment protection act rather than the 100 rs fine under central motor vehicles act.
for more effective implementation of the epa & supreme court mandates saving 8000 innocents hearing from permanent irreversible damage.
thank you
I am not yet clear about the competent authority in this case. I am being sticky about this because we will unnecessarily loose time if the RTI application goes to a wrong department. We can avoid this by being sure of the department to which this application should go to. Is it covered by Road transport authority or traffic police or pollution control board? It is clear on the website of pollution control board that they deal only with the air and water pollution.
legally speaking kspcb-since they have issued diwali advisory specifying noise levels of crackers, timings etc, are the logical authority. they should also be the one to go after manufacturers and dealers and ep act is more stringent on violations. Transport commissioner as i understand can only go after illegally fitted vehicles. May be the chief secretary or home ? just transport commissioner should be sufficient. based on his response i could approach the chief secretary?
Following is the draft of the RTI application that will be filed. Please feel free to suggest any modifications.
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To,
Public Information Officer,
Transport Department, Karnataka State government
5th Floor, M.S. Building,
Dr. Ambedkar Road, Bangalore-560 001
Sub: Request for information under RTI act.
Sir,
I would like to have the following information under RTI act.
1) Number of cases where the vehicles are fitted with illegal horns and/or modified illegal silencers. Please provide year-wise list from 2006 (??) to till date.
2) In how many number of cases (specified in reply to point 1) has the action been taken against the owners (offenders) under the Environment Protection act?
3) List of the repeated offenders and the action taken against them.
4) Please provide the list of manufacturers and dealers of illegal horns and illegal silencers in the state of Karnataka. Also, give the details of action taken against such entities during the years 2006 to till date.
I request you to send the above information by post as required under the RTI act. I am attaching the Indian Postal Order towards the RTI application fee (IPO no._________ of Rs. 10/-) and the postal charges (IPO no.__________ of Rs.______).
Thanking you,
seems perfectly fine, First question could be to point out this is a very old settled issue not implemented leading to serious loss of quality of life under article 21
1)What specific steps have you and the mandated enforcement authorities have jointly taken to implement EPA and supreme court orders in WP#20050718 of 2005, to avoid attracting contempt of court proceedings?
thanks for a well drafted RTI application
Following is the improved draft. Can be used for printing and filing the application.
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To,
Public Information Officer,
Transport Department, Karnataka State government
5th Floor, M.S. Building,
Dr. Ambedkar Road, Bangalore-560 001
Sub: Request for information under RTI act.
Sir,
I would like to have the following information under RTI act.
1) What specific steps have you and the mandated enforcement authorities have jointly taken to implement Environment Protection act and supreme court orders in WP#20050718 of 2005, to avoid attracting contempt of court proceedings?
2) Number of registered cases where the vehicles are fitted with illegal horns and/or modified illegal silencers. Please provide year-wise list from 2006 to till date.
3) In how many number of cases (specified in reply to point 1) has the action been taken against the owners (offenders) under the Environment Protection act?
4) List of the repeated offenders and the details of action taken against them.
5) Please provide the list of manufacturers and dealers of illegal horns and illegal silencers in the state of Karnataka. Also, give the details of action taken against such entities during the years 2006 to till date.
I request you to send the above information by post as required under the RTI act. I am attaching the Indian Postal Order towards the RTI application fee (IPO no._________ of Rs. 10/-) and the postal charges (IPO no._________ of Rs.______).
Thanking you,
i am the resident of JP nagar 7th phase bangalore BOB colony 4 th main. this is a residential area and there are lot of stone crushing machines which runs continiously24*7*365 and spreads tremendous pollution, noise is unbearable for near by residents even some time we cant even sleep in nights due to that.
Supreme court even ordered to shift machines from the residential areas to safer zones same can be cheeked on this url
http://www.lawyersclubindia.com/news/Stone-crushing-units-in-K-taka-be-shifted-in-6-months-SC-12530.asp even lot of times it came in times of india.
i send more than 100+ mails to karnataka pollution board but all in vain.
Dear All ,
You people are talking about the noise pollution spreaded by the vehicles thats is very small thing we people of JP nagar 7th phase BOB colony 4th main are living under unhunman condition. lot of stone crushing machines are there in this residential area and spreading huge noise pollution 24*7*365 days.it dont know some day we may dead with severe disease due to these machines polluting whole area. we send lot of mails to Karnataka pollution board but no response from them.
Sir please help . we are hopeless now
Dear Sir,
We have prepared this final drafted RTI Application to suit your query.We perceive that there is no threat involved if file this RTI Application yourself. To file this RTI Application you need to send postal order worth Rs. 35(Rs 10 as fees for processing the application and Rs 25 as speed post charges of the reply) along with your RTI Application.
If however you feel that there is threat involved in filing the application yourself, you can reply back informing us about the same and we will file this RTI Application for you.
Thank You.
Thats fine I will do it thanks for the effort.
Do not waste too much time in deciding the authority whom to apply, you file the RTI whrever you think proper, As per the ACT it is the responsibility of the receiving authority to forward the application to the proper authority within 5 working days and inform you,