Mumbai: High Court has observed that if any area within a 100m periphery of schools is designated as a silence zone, the institutions will not require any prior permission to use loud speaker for educational activities.
A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice NM Jamdar nullified decision of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) declaring Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul at Dadar as a silence zone, the HC said the school does not require prior permission from police and local planning authority for school-related activities, yet school have to obtain permission for commercial activities.
Bench gave this order while hearing petition filed by city-based Indian Education Society. The institution had approached the HC challenging the corporation’s decision to declare one of their schools, Raja Shivaji Vidyasankul at Dadar, as a silence zone.
HC directed Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to clarify its stand on impracticability of minimum standards for residential and silence zones. The court has given the MoEF time up to June 22 for responding to the observation.
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