India, July 14 -- After the police, following court directives to enforce noise pollution regulations, removed loudspeakers from all religious structures in the city, Mumbai's mosques are looking for alternatives to overcome the predicament. A couple of them have come up with innovative ideas.

In the course of the drive, the police removed 1,608 loudspeakers from religious structures in Mumbai alone. Of these, 1,149 were in mosques, 48 in temples, 10 in churches, four in gurudwaras and 147 in other religious establishments, as per the information given by the state government in the state legislature. On Friday, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis declared that the city had finally been made loudspeaker-free.

Even as several petitions have...