Summary:
The BMC couldn't furnish any valid reason why the silence zones have not been enforced. Mumbai earlier had 1,503 silence zones, but the Centre abolished it last August. The citizens have to know which areas in the city are silence zones and when will they be enforceable." The city council has for five months been dawdling with the task of declaring silence zones in the city, even after getting the state urban development department's nod for notifying 110 such zones across Mumbai. The state environment department had issued guidelines to all municipal corporations asking them to propose silence zones and BMC was the first to lead the pack..