Study on need of monitoring sound pollution at developing urban localities

Pravina Salve *

Department of Mathematics, Bhalerao Science College, Saoner, Dist. Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2024, 13(01), 3368–3376.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2024.13.1.2095
Publication history: 
Received on 16 September 2024; revised on 26 October 2024; accepted on 29 October 2024
 
Abstract: 
Environmental pollution is a very serious issue around the world due to development of humankind towards well-being and modernization. It not only impacts health but also affects over all biodiversity. Sound does nothing till it is up to certain limit, as it creates pressure on the particles of the medium, when the limit of pressure is increased, it becomes nuisance. Sound pollution is the one important agent out of other factors that disrupts the living of humans and its ecosystem. It is related with physical, psychological or emotional states. Sound pollution adversely affects the humankind and animals leading to irritation, loss of concentration, and loss of hearing and abnormal behaviour of animals.
The present work emphasizes the need to monitor and control the sound pollution in the developing cities to tackle the related future problems, to investigate the status and validity of ambient noise standards in the Indian situation, also to propose need of noise control based on the available knowledge on noise policies and regulations. The study is an approach towards importance of monitoring the sound pollution, its sources and its effects on the human activities or the ecosystem with respect to degrees of exposure in the newly developing urban localities with moderate commercial activities. The impact of sound pollution will increase if appropriate measures are not taken.
 
Keywords: 
Sound pollution; Environmental pollution; Health; Urban localities; Noise monitoring
 
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