For residents, it’s still very noisy

New Delhi: The country's civil aviation regulator has fixed noise limits for aircraft landing at the Delhi airport but the residents of Vasant Kunj are not satisfied. The residents have been fighting a pitched battle for the last couple of years to curb noise pollution in their area caused by aircraft landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Thanks to the petition filed by the residents of Vasant Kunj and some other areas near the airport, the Delhi high court had asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to take measures to curb the menace. Following this, a night curfew was imposed on runway 29, the flight path of which falls right over Vasant Kunj.
DGCA has now fixed a noise limit of 105 decibels for aircrafts operating from IGIA but the residents say it needs to be lowered. "The idea is to keep the limit so high that there are no violations at all," said Anil Sood of the NGO Chetna, the first to file a petition.
25/02/11 Sidhartha Roy/Hindustan Times

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Categories: Airports Feb 2011