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Pointing towards Mumbai’s worsening aerial quality, Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) wrote to the BMC seeking ‘urgent, bonzer and sustained intervention’ to code the ‘public wellness emergency’ faced by the fiscal capital. He pointed retired that contempt strict guidelines, the compliance connected crushed remained inconsistent, asking for an contiguous halt connected each the digging and operation enactment till the aerial prime improved.
“Given the severity of the crisis, regular measures volition nary longer suffice,” helium said successful the missive addressed to BMC Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani.
Posting the missive connected societal media, Mr Deora said, “Mumbai’s air-pollution situation is nary longer a seasonal contented — it is simply a public-health emergency. India needs a nationwide warfare & a nationalist statement against aerial pollution. #Mumbai is gasping for cleanable air. As a Mumbaikar & a nationalist representative, I judge we merit better. It is my work arsenic your MP to basal with you connected this increasing concern. I person written to the @mybmc Commissioner urging contiguous & bonzer action, including a impermanent halt connected each digging & operation enactment until aerial prime improves. Let’s travel unneurotic & physique a public-awareness question for cleanable air.”
Putting retired data, helium said the alarming numbers spoke for themselves astir the concern successful the city. “On 22 November 2025, Mumbai’s AQI touched “298 (Unhealthy), with PM2.5 astatine 126 µg/m² and PM10 astatine 163 µg/m. On 23 November 2025, the AQI again remained precocious astatine “255, with PM2.5 astatine 110 µg/m³ and PM10 astatine 138 µg/m³. According to the “BMC Environment Status Report 2024-25, yearly PM10 levels crossed monitoring zones scope betwixt **70-125 µg/m³, portion PM2.5 levels scope **27-52 µg/m², with Chembur reporting the highest concentrations. October 2025” was Mumbai’s astir polluted period of the year, with respective monitoring stations signaling their highest PM2.5/PM10 levels since January.”
Shiv Sena UBT MLA and erstwhile Environment Minister of Maharashtra Aaditya Thackeray besides raised the contented of Mumbai’s worsening aerial quality, adding that the metropolis competed with India’s nationalist superior of New Delhi successful the ‘terrible AQI’ race.
“The Governments from apical to bottom, presently controlled by the BJP and it’s allies conveniently disregard the plight of the people. In Mumbai, builders and contractors are a precedence for the BJP govt, portion isolated from the operation and demolition works, histrion felling successful the sanction of “development” is the caller mantra of the BJP. And arsenic if this wasn’t enough, the BJP authorities is readying to de-regularise Sanjay Gandhi National Park and unfastened it up for “development”- means builders!”
He besides alleged that Nashik’s celebrated Tapovan wood was being hacked by the BJP government, and that the onshore volition allegedly beryllium handed implicit to Adani aft the Kumbh mela. “Likewise, successful Nashik, the Tapovan- a wood meant for meditation and known for its serene link with quality and our spiritual heritage, is being hacked by the BJP. This Tapovan, aft the wood has been destroyed, and Kumbh is over, volition beryllium handed to the Adani radical by the BJP. It’s heartbreaking to spot truthful galore cities from India successful the “most polluted cities” database and it’s shameful that the BJP governments don’t care. All they attraction astir is builders and contractors, not citizens,” helium posted.
