India, Sept. 23 -- New Delhi

The onset of the festive season has brought along with it long traffic snarls and noise pollution, as many groups continued to blast devotional music on truck-mounted loudspeakers and boom boxes for a fourth consecutive day, residents said. The traffic police also advised public to avoid Netaji Subash Marg near Red Fort and Nishad Raj Marg-located near Ramleela venues-until October 3.

Residents alleged that among the worst affected are people of south and southeast Delhi, especially those residing in Greater Kailash, CR Park, Kalkaji, New Friends Colony, Nehru Place and Lajpat Nagar, among others in the vicinity of the Mathura Road and Ring Road.

A 63-year-old resident of Maharani Bagh Block A, requesting a...