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After cracking the whip onin the city, sleuths of Bengaluru Traffic Police and Road Transport Office are now training their guns on noisy engines andof vehicles plying Namma Bengaluru roads. Owners of such vehicles have two months to fix anomalies because the equipment to detect them will take that long to be ready.Assisted by Karnataka Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), BTP and RTO will come down strongly on engines producing a noise above the permissible level after expiry of the two-month grace period. Vehicles with shrill horns will not be spared either, and booked on the spot. Aiding them in this endeavour will be 12 mobile testing units and 100 noise-level detecting meters, according to Ramanatha Rai, minister for forest, environment and ecology.While inaugurating ‘XGN-Karnataka’, an online consent management system software developed by KSPCB in association with National Informatics Centre, Ramanatha Rai said, “While the mobile units will help transport department sleuths identify pollution causing vehicles, noise meters will help the traffic police detect.”Chairperson of KSPCB Ramachandra said, “Each vehicle will cost between Rs.2.5 lakh and Rs.3 lakh, and they will each be fitted with equipment worth Rs.10 lakh. In another two months, the procurement process will get over and these vehicles will be handed over to the transport department.”