Generators in residential areas

At ground level however one would see the six storied buildings almost touching each other as builders and owners violated building codes taking advantage of lax enforcement. Now, to deal with frequent power cuts many homeowners and almost all developers have installed generators that spew out fumes and add to noise as soon as the electricity goes out.

I live in the first floor of a house that has no generator but within minutes of electricity going off the entire floor is filled with smoke and noise from the neighbouring houses even if all the windows are shut. The smoke take hours to go away.

The Environmental Conservation Act of 1995 sets standards for air quality and noise level which is clearly exceeded by most generators. Apparently no one knows that environmental laws of the land are being violated by their investment in inappropriate equipments and that some day they may be taken to task for this.

Most homeowners are elderly retired people for whom a healthy environment is a very high priority. How can that be maintained in spite of huge proliferation of generators is an open question. Will the authorities please look into it?