Religious Festivals — Legal Reforms

Entry	Year	Description	Impact
Noise Rules 2002	2002	The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) (Amendment) Rules, 2002, S.O. 1088(E) dated 11 October 2002, inserted rule 5(3). It allowed the State Government, subject to noise-reduction conditions, to permit loudspeakers or public-address systems between 10 p.m. and midnight on cultural or religious festive occasions, limited to fifteen days in all in a calendar year. This was conditional discretion, not an unrestricted festival exemption.	For a festival example, separate religious observance from amplification and distinguish an organiser’s preference from governmental permission. The time window and annual limit constrain the provision; they do not supply permission for every celebration. This entry describes the 2002 amendment. Actual event planning needs the later amended rules, applicable state notifications and local orders, rather than treating this historical text as a complete current permission.