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being, by its injurious smells.
d) Generators and Vehicles - In the cities generators and vehicles have become the parts of normal human life. The city life moves through vehicles and is lighted by generators when the electric-supply is suspended. The generators and vehicles create dirty smoke and injurious smells, which affect the human life very badly.
e) Open-drains - In the so many undeveloped towns drains are found open which create unbearable and unhealthy smells, which also injure the human life.
To remove the air-pollution the chimneys of factories should be too high, the dead bodies of animals should be buried and compost should be prepared very far from the human-population. The electric-supply must be regular. So that generators may be used seldom, and the vehicles should be kept in proper-order so that they may create less smoke. The drains must be covered so that dirty smells will not pollute the air. 3. Sound-Pollution
The sound pollution is created in the following ways.
a) Loudspeakers - The loudspeakers are used on the occasion of marriage ceremonies, different festivities and election. Particularly at the time of election all competitors want to suppress and surpass other's sounds. As a result of that nothing is heard clearly and sound pollution is created. The same thing is found at the time of festivities like Durgā-pujā, Saraswati-pujā, Holi etc.
b) Vehicles - In the increasing populations of the cities the streets and roads are seen full of rush. All parsons want to march fastly. No body wants to wait. All people want to move by surpassing others, towards decided places, even by rushing others, particularly in the cities like Varanasi where people lack traffic sense no road is found for free movement. So only the horns of different vehicles are heard which create a painful sound population.
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