No honking please: When in Aizawl, you cannot and shouldn’t honk!

If we ask you to mention one thing that you hate about metro cities, most will complain about traffic, and the blaring horns that never seem to stop.

Cut to chase, and we take you to Aizawl, the capital city of Mizoram, where people are done with unnecessary honking, and where noise-pollution is definitely under control. You will be intrigued to know that it’s also the country’s first city to adopt a no-honking policy, that too, without any law in place or official help.
Honking is considered to be the most common source of noise pollution, and the metro cities in India are trying all possible ways to handle it. Of course, people continue to suffer from the blaring honking on the roads in the cities.
In such a scenario, Aizawl has set an example on how to deal with this crisis. Here, it’s not just the private vehicles that do not honk; even the government vehicles are not allowed to honk. It is imperative to follow the rule regardless if people are in a rush to reach their office, or are stuck in snail-paced traffic; nobody honks, or jumps their lane in Aizawl.
All of this has been possible in Aizawl because of people’s initiative. It’s a city of around 3.5 lakh people, where more than 1.25 lakh vehicles are registered. Which means, if someone is stuck in a jam, it might take them one or two hours to cover the distance of merely 15 km.

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Maintaining traffic discipline is one of the basic norms of Mizoram. Even though it’s facing the issue of growing population and vehicles, there is no space to expand, which is also one of the reasons why stringent rules are in place.

In short, if you are craving for a noise-free and peaceful vacation, you know where to go.