Rule 2(c) of the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 defines "authority" to include "a District Magistrate, Police Commissioner, or any other officer not below the rank of the Deputy Superintendent of Police designated for the maintenance of the ambient air quality standards in respect of noise". Rule 4(2): "The authority shall be responsible for the enforcement of noise pollution control measures". Rule 7(2): "The authority shall act on the complaint and take action against the violator".
The Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 were read through for a time limit on acting on a complaint. Rule 7(2) requires the authority to act; it fixes no period. Haryana’s notified-services list contains no noise service either.
This site already routes accident and safety-to-life reports in Gurugram to 112, the national emergency number, and to Gurugram Police.
What that means here: A call to 112 is a dispatch, not a complaint record. It is the right first action when someone is in danger and the wrong one if what you want is a reference number to escalate later.
If a loudspeaker after 10 p.m., or any noise you need stopped now rather than investigated later
Commissioner of Police, Gurugram
A Police Commissioner, and any officer not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police so designated, are within the definition of "authority" in rule 2(c). Rule 5(1) requires written permission from the authority before a loudspeaker or public address system is used at all, and rule 5(2) bars its use at night — rule 2(j) defines night time as 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. — except in closed premises for communication within, such as auditoria, conference rooms, community halls and banquet halls.
What that means here: A loudspeaker running at 11 p.m. in the open is prohibited outright, not merely over a limit. You do not have to prove a decibel figure to complain about it.
This site already routes accident and safety-to-life reports in Gurugram to 112, the national emergency number, and to Gurugram Police.
What that means here: A call to 112 is a dispatch, not a complaint record. It is the right first action when someone is in danger and the wrong one if what you want is a reference number to escalate later.
Who is politically accountable, and under which statute
The body or member on whom a statute puts the obligation. None of these can dispatch a crew; each is named here with the section that makes it answerable.
Municipal Corporation of Gurugram
Statutory basis
Section 43(d) of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994 makes "generally the abatement of all nuisances" an obligatory function of the Corporation, and s.43(i) "the regulation and abatement of offensive or dangerous trades or practices".
What that means here: This is a general nuisance power, not a noise power. The Noise Rules put noise enforcement on the District Magistrate and the police, so the Corporation is the weaker of the two routes and is named here only for completeness.
The Corporation can be asked to abate a nuisance; the executive power to do so is the Commissioner’s under s.49. For a loudspeaker, the faster and better-grounded route is the authority under the Noise Rules.
This is the part that saves you a wasted month. Each limit is a limit in law, not an observation about how slow somebody is.
Haryana State Pollution Control Board
Rule 4(3) of the Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 gives State Pollution Control Boards the job of collecting, compiling and publishing technical and statistical data on noise pollution. Rule 4(2) puts enforcement on "the authority", which rule 2(c) defines as the District Magistrate, the Police Commissioner or a designated officer not below Deputy Superintendent of Police.
What that means here: HSPCB cannot stop the loudspeaker. On the Rules as written it is the data body, not the enforcement body — and this site’s existing noise routing for Gurugram, which points at HSPCB, sends residents to a desk with no power to act.
Under s.49 of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, "subject to general supervision and control of the Corporation the executive power, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act ... shall vest in the Commissioner".
What that means here: The elected Corporation supervises. It is the Commissioner — an officer appointed by the State Government under s.45, not an elected member — who can actually order work done.
Nothing in the Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 gives a municipal councillor any role. The Rules name the District Magistrate, the Police Commissioner and designated police officers as "the authority", and put the duty to act on them.
MPLADS funds a durable community asset. A noise complaint asks for enforcement, not construction, so there is nothing for the entitlement to be spent on; and an MP cannot in any case sanction a work, only recommend one.
What that means here: This is not a funding problem, which means the one power an MP holds over local works has no purchase on it at all.
Complain to the authority under rule 7 — in practice the police, and in writing to the Deputy Commissioner as District Magistrate — and record the time and duration, because a loudspeaker after 10 p.m. is prohibited outright.
A written complaint to the District Magistrate under rule 7 creates a record with a named statutory duty attached to it: rule 7(2) says the authority "shall act on the complaint". The time you noted is the whole of the evidence a night-time loudspeaker case needs.
This site already routes accident and safety-to-life reports in Gurugram to 112, the national emergency number, and to Gurugram Police.
What that means here: A call to 112 is a dispatch, not a complaint record. It is the right first action when someone is in danger and the wrong one if what you want is a reference number to escalate later.
Each rung as the notification or statute names it, with its published window where one exists and a plain statement where none does.
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The authority under rule 2(c) — police, or the District Magistrate
No published time limit for this rung.
Rule 7 lets a person complain to the authority, and rule 7(2) requires the authority to act on the complaint and take action against the violator in accordance with the Rules and any other law in force.
The authority’s power to prohibit the noise continuing
No published time limit for this rung.
Rule 8 of the Noise Pollution Rules, 2000 is headed "Power to prohibit etc. continuance of music sound or noise", and rule 8(1) lets the authority act on the report of an officer in charge of a police station or other information.
There is no Right to Service ladder for noise: it is not a notified service in the consolidated list, so there is no Designated Officer, no First or Second Grievance Redressal Authority and no route to the Right to Service Commission.
14 documents, each with the date it was read. Where a copy is a mirror, a scan or a superseded edition, that is said here rather than left for you to discover.
This copy is updated only to 11 October 2017 and is hosted on a state investment-promotion site rather than by the issuing department. District Gurugram’s own page states 531 services stood notified as of 20 July 2021, so entries may since have changed. The Right to Service Commission’s own site, haryana-rtsc.gov.in, could not be read on 2026-09-29: its TLS certificate chain failed to verify.
Read as a text layer extracted from the PDF, which carries scanning artefacts; quoted wording has been checked character by character but spacing has been normalised. Amendments after the copy PRS hosts have not been checked.
Read as a text layer extracted from the PDF, which carries scanning artefacts; quoted wording has been checked character by character but spacing has been normalised. Amendments after the copy PRS hosts have not been checked.
Read as a text layer extracted from the PDF, which carries scanning artefacts; quoted wording has been checked character by character but spacing has been normalised. Amendments after the copy PRS hosts have not been checked.
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India
This is the June 2016 edition. A revised edition dated 1 April 2023 is in force. mplads.gov.in, which publishes it, refused connections from this machine on 2026-09-29 (164.100.213.140 answered on neither 443 nor 80), and no other copy of the April 2023 text was located, so the provisions cited from this edition may have been amended. Where the 2023 revision is known to differ, that is said explicitly.