India, July 20 -- Thousands of devotees partaking in the annual Kanwar Yatra are set to enter the Capital on foot from Sunday, likely impacting vehicular movement at key points, officials said. A total of 374 camps have been set up for kanwariyas in the city - in some parts, they have been set up in front of hospitals, raising annual concerns regarding the boombox menace.

Despite police and other enforcement agencies launching measures to ensure that boomboxes are not played above permissible levels, residents say that blasting of devotional music at deafening volumes on the city's streets, often through the night, has seen little to no prevention on the ground.

Asha Puri, a 65-year-old resident of Raja Garden in west Delhi whose reside...