50m area around Mysuru zoo and Karanji lake declared as ‘silent zone’

The city police declared an area up to 50 m from the Mysuru Zoo and Karanji Lake Nature Park as a ‘silent zone’ and banned bursting of crackers, use of loudspeakers and sounding of horns in the area.

Police had declared the roads around the zoo. Shalivahana Road from ML Somasundaram Circle to S. Linganna Circle, Lokaranjan Mahal Road from S. Linganna Circle to Circus Ground Junction, Tank Bund Road from Circus Ground Junction to Maharana Prathap Singh Circle, and MG Road from Maharana Prathap Singh Circle to ML Somasundaram Circle as silent zone in notification issued in December 2023.

However, city police commissioner Seema Latkar issued a revised notification on October 16, 2024, declaring an area up to 50 m from Sri Chamarajendra Zoo and Karanji Lake Nature Park as a silent zone, following a letter to that effect from the zoo’s executive director.

Police have banned bursting of crackers, use of loudspeakers and sounding of horns in the area under different provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Karnataka Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, and the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control), 2000.