MUMBAI: The Bombay high courtroom on Friday got here out in fortify of the Mumbai metro and instructed a "workable solution" will have to be arrived at between its operator and citizens of the metropolis who bitch of noise air pollution because of the continuing paintings.
The HC observed the mission can be beneficial to lakhs of Mumbaikars and efforts will have to be made to ensure its building paintings progresses smoothly because it declined to relax restriction on paintings all through night time hours at the stretch linking south Mumbai with the suburbs.
A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla asked Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) and citizens complaining of noise air pollution to reach at a workable solution.
However, the bench declined to permit the MMRCL to carry out building paintings for the Metro III line all through night time time till August 10 through when the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) would post its record on ambient noise ranges at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai.
"This report needs to be looked into. Till that time the present order prohibiting any night time construction work will have to continue," the courtroom mentioned.
The bench, then again, added that it cannot omit the fact that the metro mission, once useful, can be beneficial to lakhs of Mumbaikars.
"Therefore, it is true that some balancing act is required to be maintained so that while the larger public interest does not suffer, the rights of individual guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India to live in a pollution-free environment and the Noise Pollution Rules are also protected," the courtroom mentioned.
"Some workable solution needs to be arrived at so that work of the project progresses in a smooth manner. We hope and trust that the MMRCL and the contractor (Larsen and Toubro) take efforts to ensure that minimum nuisance is caused at least during night time," Justice Oka mentioned.
The courtroom also directed the MMRCL to instantly set up a grievance redressal mechanism the place people can hotel court cases.
The bench has posted the subject for additional listening to on August 10.
The HC was listening to an application filed through the MMRCL in the hunt for modification of an earlier order which prohibited them from wearing out metro paintings at Cuffe Parade all through night time time.
The HC, in December remaining, restricted the MMRCL from wearing out any building paintings in the night time because it was developing noise air pollution and causing hassles to people residing in the area.
The MMRCL and L&T had claimed the ambient noise degree at Cuffe Parade was 80 decibels all through day time and 61 at night time.
"The metro work will only be 10 decibels above the already existing noise levels," L &T suggest S U Kamdar had mentioned.
MMRCL suggest Ashutosh Kumbhkoni had argued that the Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 would not observe to the metro mission.
The 33-km metro line III, a part of the rapid delivery gadget, will connect the trade district of Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai to SEEPZ economic zone in the town's North-Central suburbs by means of Bandra.
The HC observed the mission can be beneficial to lakhs of Mumbaikars and efforts will have to be made to ensure its building paintings progresses smoothly because it declined to relax restriction on paintings all through night time hours at the stretch linking south Mumbai with the suburbs.
A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla asked Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) and citizens complaining of noise air pollution to reach at a workable solution.
However, the bench declined to permit the MMRCL to carry out building paintings for the Metro III line all through night time time till August 10 through when the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) would post its record on ambient noise ranges at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai.
"This report needs to be looked into. Till that time the present order prohibiting any night time construction work will have to continue," the courtroom mentioned.
The bench, then again, added that it cannot omit the fact that the metro mission, once useful, can be beneficial to lakhs of Mumbaikars.
"Therefore, it is true that some balancing act is required to be maintained so that while the larger public interest does not suffer, the rights of individual guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India to live in a pollution-free environment and the Noise Pollution Rules are also protected," the courtroom mentioned.
"Some workable solution needs to be arrived at so that work of the project progresses in a smooth manner. We hope and trust that the MMRCL and the contractor (Larsen and Toubro) take efforts to ensure that minimum nuisance is caused at least during night time," Justice Oka mentioned.
The courtroom also directed the MMRCL to instantly set up a grievance redressal mechanism the place people can hotel court cases.
The bench has posted the subject for additional listening to on August 10.
The HC was listening to an application filed through the MMRCL in the hunt for modification of an earlier order which prohibited them from wearing out metro paintings at Cuffe Parade all through night time time.
The HC, in December remaining, restricted the MMRCL from wearing out any building paintings in the night time because it was developing noise air pollution and causing hassles to people residing in the area.
The MMRCL and L&T had claimed the ambient noise degree at Cuffe Parade was 80 decibels all through day time and 61 at night time.
"The metro work will only be 10 decibels above the already existing noise levels," L &T suggest S U Kamdar had mentioned.
MMRCL suggest Ashutosh Kumbhkoni had argued that the Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 would not observe to the metro mission.
The 33-km metro line III, a part of the rapid delivery gadget, will connect the trade district of Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai to SEEPZ economic zone in the town's North-Central suburbs by means of Bandra.
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