Pune: The National Green Tribunal ’s western zonal bench in Pune on Wednesday directed notices to be issued to the district collector and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), asking the authorities to apprise it about the measures taken to control noise pollution during Ganeshotsav . The two authorities must file their reports by Aug 28 when the matter would be heard next. The bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh and expert member Vijay Kukarni was hearing an application filed by audiologist Kalyani Mandke seeking various directions to curb noise pollution during the festival.
It directed Mandke to implead the Pune police commissioner as one of the respondents in the matter as the police chief is the executing authority of orders to curb noise pollution. Mandke’s application highlighted the problems caused by noise pollution between 2018 and 2023. The bench said, “We recollect that in the past also, several petitions had been filed in this regard before this tribunal and orders had also been passed therein regarding control of noise pollution.
The details are not found to have been mentioned in the present original application. Therefore, we direct the applicant to implead the Police Commissioner, Pune as respondent No 5 in the present original application.” Mandke sought the tribunal’s directives to authorities to implement adequate noise control and monitoring measures during the festival to mitigate noise pollution, including implementation of the Centr.