Some streets are trying to heal.
Keep the noise down near hospitals, schools and courts, and ease off late at night. These are silence zones for a reason.
A hospital ward can hear a great deal more than you'd think.
Here's the science
- What happensMaking loud amplified noise - loudspeakers, horns, PA systems - near hospitals, schools and courts
- HowIndia's Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 declare the area within 100 metres of hospitals, educational institutions and courts a 'silence zone' where such noise is restricted, and also limit loudspeakers at night
- SoNoise inside a silence zone is a legal violation and disturbs the sick, the studying and the courts
How it works - the size isn't measured hereIN
“Area not less than 100 metres around hospitals, educational institutions and courts to be declared as silence area for the purpose of these Rules.”
This official reply states the silence-zone rule; the specific night limit (10 pm - 6 am) and decibel standards live in the CPCB Rules text and are not quoted here.
Source: Law on Noise Pollution (Lok Sabha reply on the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000) - Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India(checked 2026-07-18)
And when we do it
A hushed lane beside a hospital is one small kindness a whole ward can feel.
You couldn't have known. Now you do.