With the rapid rate of urbanization of Aurangabad city due to the expanding industrialization, the problem of noise pollution has become a concern for urban dwellers and government authority too. Noise pollution due to vehicular traffic is one of the growing environmental problems of urban centers. The study deals with the assessment of traffic noise levels in Aurangabad city. With respect to the total number of vehicles passing the road in unit time, which was surveyed by direct count method, six different sites from Aurangabad city, viz., Nagar Naka, Kranti Chowk, CIDCO bus stand, Railway station area, Dhoot Hospital and Baba petrol pump were selected to study the vehicular noise level. Noise measurements were carried out at these six locations on both working day and holiday during the peak traffic hours, i.e. 8:00 a.m. - 11:a.m., 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., in the morning, afternoon and evening sessions, respectively, after 5 minutes time interval. The noise level was monitored using noise level meter. The results obtained from this investigation showed that the Nagar Naka, Kranti chowk and CIDCO bus stand area have dense traffic zones when compared with the Railway station area, Dhoot Hospital and Baba petrol pump. The minimum and the maximum noise levels are 74 and 86 dB, respectively, on working day and 70 and 81 dB, respectively, on holiday. The measured noise level values exceed the prescribed noise level.

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Using soil survey database, the current study aims to determine the optimum feasible land surface for grape cultivation in order to increase and optimize production. Proper management of land resources requires micro-level assessment. The study area is village Rahud in the drought-prone zone of Nashik district, Maharashtra, India. The village’s current land use and land cover data point to proper soil resource management for fallow land reclamation. The revenue map was used to create the base map. The NBSS and LUP criteria are used to assess the suitability of a soil location for grape production. The study area’s varied land use/cover and slope components were used to gather detailed soil samples and measure soil hydrological parameters. The spatial variation of soil physical, chemical, and hydrological parameters was assessed using soil sample collection and analysis. To assess quantitative and spatial variation of soil suitability for grape cultivation Geoinformatics and statistical approaches were used. The standards raster database was used for ranking and parametric evaluation and spatial assessment. Highly suitable land accounts 22.95 % of the entire village, moderately suitable land is 27.11 % and marginally suitable land covers 22.67 %. Fallow land contains marginally appropriate classes and is ideal for converting into suitable class application if the proper soil measures followed.