MMRDA to install noise barriers outside IIT

After acquiring land from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay for the road-widening project for the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road,the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has decided to install noise barriers along the IIT compound at Powai.

After acquiring land from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay for the road-widening project for the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR),the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to install noise barriers along the IIT compound at Powai.

MMRDA officials said after the land acquisition and road widening the distance between the residential buildings and the road reduced greatly and this had led to noise pollution. During the land acquisition,the IIT authorities had asked us to take measures that could reduce noise pollution. So,we are putting up noise barriers along the compound, said an MMRDA official. The work will take around six months at a cost of Rs 4.24 crore on a patch more than a kilometre.

The JVLR is one of the busiest roads in the city that connects the eastern suburbs with the western.

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It is also used by people from the eastern suburbs and cities such as Navi Mumbai and Thane to go to the domestic and international airport. So,the vehicular density in the area is quite high.

The MMRDA had undertaken a similar project at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) at the cost of Rs 8.68 crore.

It also undertook noise mapping project that showed noise levels ranging from 65 to 98 decibels before installing the noise barriers. However,after installation of the five-metre-tall noise barriers,the noise levels dropped to acceptable limits of 55 decibels during the day and well below 45 decibels at night. The MMRDA is also installing noise barriers on all the flyovers constructed by it under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP).

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