Effect of noise pollution on exposed people of Gorakhpur City Yadav Shweta1,*, Bilas Ram2 1Department of Geography, B.H.U, Varanasi, U.P, India 2Department of Geography, B.H.U, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India *Corresponding author
Online published on 24 May, 2018. Abstract Increasing noise pollution has posed serious threat to urban life. The increasing number of vehicles, population, indiscipline among the public due to disobedience of Noise Act., ignorance of traffic rules and regulations are the main reason for increasing problem of noise pollution in the study area. For this purpose present study was carried out at different locations of city with Sound Level Meter to assess the day and night sound level. Study also includes a gentle discussion regarding willingness to pay and the general behavior of respondent toward problem through interviewed covering different cross section of the community. Gorakhpur city is one of the important cities of Uttar Pradesh. So an attempt has been made in city of Gorakhpur to measure noise level and also made recommendations to overcome this noise pollution in the prominent city. Top Keywords Traffic, Noise level, Annoyance, Willingness, Recommendation. Top |