"About 80 per cent hearing problems caused by noise pollution could be corrected with the effective implementation of the Noise Pollution Rules in the state," Chief Parliamentary Secretary Health and Family Welfare Punjab, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, today said.
Sidhu asked the district administration, municipal corporations and other officers concerned to ensure proper implementation of the rules.
She told reporters here that the noise pollution has got to be curbed at the earliest to prevent loss of hearing capacity among people.
Quoting statistics, she said that in India 63 million people (6.3 per cent) suffer from significant auditory loss and it is the second most common cause of disability.
WHO had noted that half of the deafness were preventable and 30 per cent are treatable or could be managed by assistive devices, she said.
She said that the government would ensure that as per the law enacted an area comprising not less than 100 meters around hospitals, educational institutions and courts was declared as a silence zone.
Corrective measures like reducing the heavy traffic, fixing of speed limit, putting a green belt along the roads should be taken so as to curb the menace of noise pollution to a certain extent in the larger public interest, she said.
Municipal Corporation should also formulate its own rules and regulation under its jurisdiction to control noise nuisance.
