Lower the din – Aircraft noise a Pain for Residents around Airport
Aircraft noise a pain for residents around airport
Sahil yaduvanshi, 4, loves airplanes. He does not have to go far to look at one. He just has to peer out of his play school window and look up every few minutes to see one. “This is Cattie…,” he shouts out to his friend Pushpesh as he looks out. Sahil enjoys the sight of the planes, and wants to become a pilot when he grows up. His only complaint is to do with the roar of the planes. “I cannot hear my teacher and my friends because of the noise,” Sahil said. He studies in Aadyant pre-school in Vasant Kunj in Delhi. Most of his friends find it difficult to concentrate after a third runway—Runway 29—became operational at the Indira Gandhi airport in September 2008. “The children get disoriented as there is an airplane flying by every few minutes. We have to repeat lessons and even raise our voices to be heard,” said Bhavina Bembi, a school counsellor. Continue reading »
Filed under Delhi, Environment, Pollution | Tags: Air Transport, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi, Environment, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Health Effects, Noise Pollution, Noise Pollution Control | Comment (0)Pollution Not under Control
Parliamentary report calls for saving the Central pollution control body
It’s official. The Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb), the nodal body for regulating environmental norms in India, is being “reduced to a near-defunct body”. The parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests for the first time took note of the problems ailing cpcb in a report tabled in Parliament on October 21.
Issues like unqualified members and lack of enforcement power have long plagued the central and state pollution control boards (spcbs), a fact acknowledged by the board heads. The committee also noticed that the scarcity of technical staff was affecting the functioning of the boards.
“The key posts in cpcb and spcbs are being manned by officers of the Indian Administrative Service or bureaucrats who neither possess the necessary capabilities and expertise in properly managing and planning pollution control activities nor have enough time to pay attention to these activities,”
the report said. Continue reading »
Filed under India, News, Pollution | Tags: Air Quality Monitoring, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Environment, India, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Parliament, Pollution Control, Water Quality | Comment (0)Green Rating Problems – GRIHA
GRIHA, a rating system for green buildings developed by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has been formalized as the first national rating system. TERI signed a memorandum of understanding with the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to this effect on November 1.
Mili Majumdar, area convenor, GRIHA, says the rating system has been designed to suit Indian conditions and in particular for non air-conditioned buildings, unlike international rating systems like US-based Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (leed), which is designed for energy efficiency measures in air-conditioned buildings only.But V Raghuraman, principal adviser and chief co-ordinator, energy environment and natural resources, Confederation of Indian Industry, says,
Filed under Environment, India | Tags: * Architecture, * Government Of India (GOI), * Green Rating Projects, * TERI, Environment, India | Comment (0)“Leed is far ahead of GRIHA. A rating system is not just about energy consumption of a building but many other things like recycling and natural habitat. There are 30 buildings certified with LEED under India.’ Continue reading »