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Sumaira Abdulali

Sumaira Abdulali is an environmental activist focusing on sand mining and noise pollution. Facing lots of hardships, she helped bring sand mining to notice worldwide by participating in documentary films and awareness campaigns and contributing to print, radio and television news. Recently, she participated in the first Roundtable of the United Nations and gave her inputs to their first report, ‘Sand and Sustainability: Finding new solutions for environmental governance of global sand resources.’

Her other focus campaign against noise pollution has become a citizens’ movement and has forced policy change in India through court interventions, awareness, and advocacy campaigns. In 2019, Mumbai was the only city in India where noise pollution significantly reduced during the entire festival season and where the Government of Maharashtra declared an anti-noise pollution year in 2018.