Indian Air Force — IAF Fighter jet Noise Pollution and Disturbance

Address:

Lohegaon IAF, Pune Airport

Patriotic, tax-paying citizen of Pune, living in La Tierra society, over which IAF fighter jets have been passing regularly from the Lohegaon Air Force Station. They are mostly practice sortie flights, but the constant Noise is a Mental harassment and disturbance to the civilian residents.

Military jet planes fly too close - from a lower altitude across residential areas and the noise is as high as 90 dB even if all the windows of our house are closed. They are also mostly slow - meaning the noise is extended to 10-15 seconds per flight take-off. It almost feels like a war-zone with the sky-tearing roars of jet noise. Daily there are close to 10 - 25 flights, sometimes even more. And this happens from Monday to Saturday and sometimes even Sundays, during odd hours of the day, and many a times even during late evenings and late nights
Their noise has become too much of a nuisance and intolerable to ears. The noise is so high that it overpowers other sounds - Phone conversation, one to one conversation and even television thereby disrupting the flow of work in our personal lives. This violates all the noise pollution norms set forth by noise pollution act 2000
IAF never feel or care about the residents. As residents, we’re constantly forced to hear the noise daily grilling into our ears and recently even during late nights and midnights. Going by noise pollution policies in India, places like ours has the highest noise pollution, and we cannot even complain this to police by dialing 100, because this is government induced action.

Our society and surrounding residential buildings are built on LEGAL land and legal construction property. We pay property taxes, income taxes and all indirect taxes.
Many of the residents like me are in working in IT industry and require to work in shifts, and need to sleep during the day while on night shifts where the jet noise causes a lot of disturbance. Some of residents also work from home whereby they have to talk to domestic and foreign client and the fighter jet noise is not acceptable. Some residents travel 25 Kms. daily to their office and their home is the only place to relax, but they cannot relax in this noise. Working in shifts, also mean that Sunday is not a relax time for everybody, it can be weekdays too.

Also studies show that fighter plane noise has a lot of health hazards on heart, lungs, brain and ears- causing deafness and early onset of cardiovascular diseases, headaches and overall mental mood.

Another reason is perhaps that sorties can be made a military secret if it is far away from the city and general population, as Pune airport has the policy of no-photograph, but fighter jets are very clearly seen from terraces in our areas

Commercial jets are not so noisy and are perfectly fine even if their frequency is to increase

Pune is on the path to become a smart city, so why are only residents of this area to bear the noise?

Remedies:
Military airport (IAF) can be migrated away from the city
Flight path can be changed or rotated.
Second airstrip/runway can be used
Direction after take-off can be changed in left/right or upper direction to avoid noise in residential areas
They can take off on low throttle and in the sky, they can practice all they want

Hence it is my earnest request to please have a permanent solution to ongoing problem, and keeping me updated with progress of resolution.