Bangladesh
Bangladesh Pollution Bangladesh: Pollution increases towards secretariat
Own correspondent, Dhaka, January 10, 2021: Noise pollution in the declared silent secretariat area has increased by 7.6 percent.
As a result, 9.5 percent of the traffic police in charge of the area has lost their hearing. If 26.25 percent of the traffic police do not speak loudly, they will not be heard. In addition, 13.6 percent of traffic police members have difficulty listening to mobile phones.
The data came from a study titled 'Intense Noise Pollution Around the Secretariat Declared a Silent Area'. The research report was presented at a function jointly organized by Bangladesh Environmental Movement (BAPA) and Stamford University Bangladesh Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS) at Dhaka Reporters' Unity at 10:30 am on Saturday (January 9).
Caps results from a survey of 200 traffic police on hearing aids. The research report was presented by the head professor of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Stamford University in Bangladesh. Ahmad Kamruzzaman Majumdar.
It was said in the press conference that on December 16, 2019, the government declared the area around the secretariat as a 'silent area'. The Department of the Environment also conducts mobile courts for fines for initially sounding the horn. But after a while everything stopped.
The report said that from December 14-22, 2020, the total noise pollution in all 12 places was the highest in 9 days. In terms of maximum noise quality, pollution has increased by 7.6 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019.
It further states that the highest value of sound as an average of the collected data is found in Kadam Fountain, which is 116.6 decibels and the lowest noise is in the west side (mosque) of the Secretariat (99.5 decibels). Noise pollution has increased in all places in 2020 in terms of highest quality as compared to 2019. The order of contamination has changed from place to place based on the highest quality of sound. The average noise level in the afternoon and afternoon was slightly higher than in the morning at day intervals. Each of the 12 locations had about 2.1 times more noise during the day than the standard (50 decibels) for a 100 percent silent area.
