Recently PNLIT partnered with Noisewatchers in monitoring the noise levels in south Bangalore.
Noisewatchers is a movement fighting sound pollution in our cities through awareness building on social media, in-person programs and advocacy with authorities. As part of this movement, the team needed to collate sound intensity data.
There is data collected by KSPCB but this is inadequate with only ten monitoring stations across Bangalore and the data is not shared live. In order to compensate for this and to ask for more and better monitoring, Noisewatchers wanted to rent the same monitoring device as distributed by the KSPCB to police stations and use it to measure sound at spots where KSPCB does not.
On 15th and 16th April 2026, they measured sound intensity at four spots in the JP Nagar - Banashankari - Jayanagar region. At each spot, they measured min, max and average sound for the duration of measure along with gps location and the primary source of sound.
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| Noise meter (Pic: Prajna Dutt) |
Read the report of the data collected and action taken with this data, on the Noisewatchers blog here.
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