We do not have power to act on noise and can only monitor: Pollution board
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has said at a recent meeting that it could not make the installation of electronic signboards to monitor sound decibel levels, online noise meters, and CCTV a condition to issue its consent to operate for restaurants along the coast.
The board stated that this is because it does not come under the Water Act and the Air Act. The board was deliberating on directives to it from the additional collector.
'Members, after deliberations, decided to request the collector to entrust the responsibility of imposing such conditions to the authority notified under the noise rules and the notified noise action plan,' the board meeting minutes state.
The board received directions from the additional collector to make these conditions part of its consent to operate.
The directives came after a meeting was held at the North Goa collectorate on April 4 to discuss issues relating to the control of noise pollution, based on a PIL in the matter.
The additional collector-I directed representatives from GSPCB and SDMs that while issuing consent/permission, the condition of installation of CCTV should be included in the permission. Directions were also issued to all establishments, including beach shacks, to mandatorily have CCTVs installed on their premises and that the footage should be made available to the officials of the GSPCB and police on demand.
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The high court was informed of these measures to control noise pollution along the North Goa coast.
However, board members noted that state govt recently notified the noise action plan under the noise rules, 2000, and that GSPCB is not the authority under the noise rules 2000 or the noise action plan. The members noted that GSPCB only carried out the real-time noise monitoring and the data is being transmitted on a real-time basis at police stations as well as the SDM, along with the board.
'As the police inspector and the SDM are the authorities responsible for enforcing the provision of noise rules, 2000, as well as the noise action plan, they are required to immediately act upon violations of the noise rules, that is, exceedance of noise levels and/or playing of music in the open beyond 10pm after considering the noise level data transmitted to them on a real-time basis,' the board noted.
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