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Alleging that azaan, the telephone to supplication successful mosques, causes ‘noise pollution’, members of the BJP urged the authorities of Karnataka to instrumentality enactment arsenic per the Supreme Court’s direction, during Question Hour successful the Legislative Council successful Belagavi connected December 16.
BJP subordinate D.S. Arun, who raised the question, stated that helium and his household members had been disturbed by the regular azaan from a mosque adjacent to his spot successful Shivamogga. “The measurement of loudspeakers successful mosques has gone up successful caller days. The Congress authorities has nary guts to instrumentality enactment against radical utilizing loudspeakers astatine mosques,” helium remarked, triggering a heated debate.
C.T. Ravi, Bharathi Shetty, N. Ravi Kumar, and Keshava Prasad of the BJP demanded that the authorities instrumentality the regularisation strictly to debar sound pollution. They alleged that the government, which banned the usage of DJ euphony during the Ganesha festival, had allowed loudspeakers successful mosques, which run passim the year.
The members successful the treasury benches accused the BJP members of politicising the issue.
Same rules for all
Minister for Environment and Forests Eshwar Khandre stated that the rules are the aforesaid for all. The authorities of Karnataka had constituted district-level committees to trial sound levels astatine spiritual places wherever loudspeakers were being used. The committee would see ACP oregon the DySP, the Executive Engineer of the municipality section body, and a typical from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board. The committee would instrumentality enactment whenever determination was a complaint, helium said.
The Minister said that his section had issued an bid insisting that loudspeakers should beryllium utilized lone betwixt 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rule, 2000, specified the maximum decibel levels with respect to delicate areas, residential areas, commercialized areas, and concern areas. Violation of the regularisation would pull punishment. “We request to dispersed consciousness among the nationalist astir sound pollution,” helium added.
