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The Mumbai civic assemblage connected Monday (December 1, 2025) claimed the fiscal capital's aerial prime has shown a marked betterment since November 26 owing to aggregate pollution-control measures undertaken crossed metropolis and its suburbs.
In a merchandise here, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) besides clarified that the Graded Response Action Plan Stage-4 (GRAP-4), a acceptable of pugnacious restrictions aimed astatine curbing aerial pollution, is not applicable to Mumbai astatine present, though intensified monitoring has been instructed.
Municipal commissioner and BMC head Bhushan Gagrani has directed officials to proceed taking strict enactment against backstage operation sites arsenic good arsenic authorities and non-government projects that interruption the civic body's 28-point particulate and pollution-mitigation guidelines, it said.
The BMC said the improved upwind velocity on with enforcement measures specified arsenic notices to errant operation projects, misting, h2o sprinkling, road-washing, consciousness drives and determination by bakeries and crematoria to displacement to cleaner fuels person contributed to the betterment successful AQI (Air Quality Index) implicit the past 48 hours.
The upwind speed, which was 3-4 kmph earlier November 28 with precocious humidity, has present accrued to 10-18 kmph, aiding contamination dispersion successful the fiscal capital, the civic assemblage noted.
The BMC has formed 94 ward-level flying squads to oversee the implementation of contamination mitigation measures. These teams are inspecting backstage sites arsenic good arsenic roadworthy and metro task stretches, issuing stop-work notices wherever violations are detected.
The squads are besides checking sensor-based AQI monitoring instrumentality astatine operation locations, the merchandise claimed.
AQI is simply a fig utilized by agencies to amusement aerial contamination levels successful an area. There are 6 AQI categories, which are bully (0-50), satisfactory (51-100), moderately polluted (101-200), mediocre (201-300), precise mediocre (301-400), and terrible (401-500).
Mumbai's GRAP-4 rules mostly screen operation sites, tiny concern units and related activities.
