Noise pollution is one of the biggest problems in our metropolitan cities which intensifies day by day. It is of various kinds for instance industrial, transport and neighborhood pollutions but commercial areas are mostly effected by transport and noise pollution.
Transport pollutions create disturbances by means of automobiles including buses, cars, trucks, motor, scooters that destroy our health internally like a slow poison. While on the other hand, neighborhood pollutions making our lives miserable by producing loud and sharp noises via TV, VCR, radio and specially the father of all loudspeaker.
The obtuse usage of loudspeaker become more and more common these days. It became an integral part of any social events like marriages, parties, pub, club, discotheques, place of worships, market places where sells men selling their products on loudspeaker to grab the attention of buyers. This will create distress among people – they can’t communicate easily with each other.
The nastiest victims of loudspeaker are mostly elders and children. Students can’t concentrate on their studies especially on exam periods and elders can’t endure this high audible range of sound leading to deafening, heart attack and insomnia.
Multiple health related issues are associated with noise pollution, it will not only affect the health of human beings but animals as well. It leads to contraction of blood vessels and muscles lead to hypertension and nervous breakdown, numbness, impairment of hearing and night vision affecting the work efficiency and behavior of an individual.
So it is the right time to take action against this nuisance as it causes serious mental, physical and pathological disorders, hence it is necessary to make all possible labors to eradicate this problem in our society for the sake of human health.
Bushra Mehboob