Assessment of Noise Levels in Different Selected Study Areas of Bengaluru CityA Case Study

Abstract

Noise pollution is one major environmental pollution on earth in resent trend due to urbanisation and industrialization also increase in vehicular population, and constructional activities, this paper has made an attempt to study the trend of noise levels caused by vehicles and other activities in Bengaluru city, the present study was carried out in selected areas of the city and the results were observed as higher than the CPCB permissible values. The study shows that the traffic volume influences to increase the noise levels in the city. During peak hour’s traffic volume is plying a predominantly very high, due to this effect the noise levels were higher than the permissible.