The Government of Goa on March 14, 2024, issued a Noise Action Plan.
Revised State Action Plan for Control of Noise Pollution is being issued in supersession of the Notification dated 7/4/98/STE/DIR/Part IV/1071 dated 05-01-2022 and published in Official Gazette, Series II No. 42 dated 13-01-2022.
The following has been stated-
•Rule 2(j) defines “Night Time” as the period between 10.00 pm and 6.00 am.
•Rule 2 (i) defines “Public Place” as any place to which the Public have access, whether as of right or not, and includes auditorium, hotels, public waiting rooms, convention centre’s, Public Offices, Shopping Malls, Cinema Halls, Educational Institutions, Libraries, Open grounds and the like which are visited by the General Public.
•Rule 3(1) of the Rules prescribes the Ambient Air Quality Standards in respect of Noise for different areas/zones shall be such as specified in the Schedule annexed to this Rules. The Standards are annexed as (Scheduled-I of the Rule) Annexure-III.
•The State Government has designated “Authority” vide Notification No. 7/4/98/STE/ /DIR/Part I/922 dated 04-12-2007 and amended the same from time to time. The copy of the prevalent Notification is Annexed as Annexure I. The Roles and Responsibilities of the various Authorities are as provided in Annexure-II.
•The Central Pollution Control Board in their report on “Scale of compensation to be recovered for violation of Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000” submitted in compliance to Hon’ble NGT order dated 01-08-2019 in the matter of OA/519/2016 at para 4.0, recorded the limitations of the Noise Rules and sub-para (ii) has recorded as follows: “In order to verify compliance, ambient noise monitoring is to be carried out for 16 hours (day time) and violation of specific source of noise can be identified due to background noise. Further, as impact of the noise source, duration of which mostly varies from few seconds to few minutes gets levelled when monitoring for long duration (16 hrs) is carried out.”
[Notification No. 7/4/98/STE/DIR/Part-IV/1860]
