Effect of sound pollution on human population

Meetu Sinha^a, Meena Sinha^a, K. Roy^b & M. Prasad^c
aDept. of Zoology, K. B. Womens College, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhad, India
^bDepartment of Zoology, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India
^cDepartment of Zoology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Received 12th May, 2011; Revised 10th August, 2011

Abstract : Sound pollution is on account of modern civilization linked with increasing number of vehicular traffic on the road, aircrafts in air as well as trains on the rail tracks. The exponential growth in the human population is also an indirect caused of sound pollution. There are severe hazards of sound polution on the human health. The authors have disuccsed the effect of sound pollution on human health beyond a permissible limit of tolerance as per WHO standards.

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