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Mumbai civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), has issued ‘stop work’ notices to 53 operation sites successful Mumbai for violating the guidelines for aerial contamination power and warned operation task owners of strict enactment for not adhering to the guidelines.
“If sensor-based Air Quality Index (AQI) plants are recovered to beryllium closed, strict enactment volition beryllium taken against the acrophobic operation site,” said Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Dr. Ashwini Joshi.
Ms. Joshi, connected Thursday (November 27, 2025), reviewed the presumption of sensor-based aerial prime scale measuring plants astatine operation sites. According to BMC, the 662 sensor-based aerial prime scale measuring plants person been installed astatine operation sites successful Mumbai, portion the process of installing 251 plants is underway. A full of 400 plants person been linked to the dashboard prepared successful accordance with the integrated information collection. Out of these, 117 plants are inactive.
The accrued levels of aerial contamination observed successful November, a full of 53 constructions has been issued ‘stop work’ notices. This includes 17 successful Siddharth Nagar country successful ‘G’ South zone, 5 successful Mazgaon country successful ‘E’ zone, and 31 successful Malad (West) country successful ‘P’ North zone.
On Thursday, BMC held a gathering with the Environment and Climate Change Department, CEEW (agency appointed for improvement of the centralised dashboard), and the 15 shortlisted vendors of sensor-based aerial prime monitoring systems.
BMC appointed flying squads to show the guidelines issued past twelvemonth connected October 15. The measures screen 28 points for aerial contamination control, including the installation of fences astir the site, aerial contamination measurement systems astatine operation sites, fume absorbers, covering them with greenish cloth, spraying water, and storing and transporting dust.
Other measures taken by the BMC were the implementation of bakeries and crematoriums connected cleanable fuel, the usage of electrical buses, projects to process operation debris, and the spraying of h2o connected roads to power dust.
Among the 593 bakeries successful Mumbai, 209 bakeries were moving connected cleanable fuel. So far, 57 bakeries person been converted to cleanable fuel. In the past six months, 75 bakeries person taken the inaugural for this change, and different 88 bakeries person applied for Mahanagar Gas,” said BMC officials successful the statement.
