“Tenders have been invited for 50 boards in each of the 24 administrative wards and the boards indicating silence zone will be put up within a month,” said Additional Municipal Commissioner, R A Rajeev . The HC on Thursday had slammed the state authorities for not identifying the silence zones in the city despite the fact that rules for noise pollution came into existence in 2000. It has now given a week’s time to the government to issue a notification and to demarcate ‘silence zones’ in the city. The HC was hearing a petition filed by NGO Awaz.

Civic officials said that signages will play an important role in creating awareness among the people. “Even of the 100 commuters if 85 do not honk seeing the signages our purpose will be fulfilled,” an official said.

The civic administration has said that its responsibility will be limited to displaying the boards at the start and end of the silence zone. “The implementing authorities will be the local and traffic police,” Rajeev said. DCP Harish Baijal (Traffic) said, “In case of silence zones, the traffic police would not need decibel meters as honking in such zones would immediately lead to imposing of fine.”