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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said that it has issued stop-work notices to 53 construction sites for contributing to air pollution, as the city grapples with deteriorating Air Quality Index (AQI).
According to media reports, The civic body has also directed that the air pollution guidelines it had laid down should be followed strictly. These include installing sensors to monitor AQI that remain operational all the time.
Ashwini Joshi, Additional Municipal Commissioner (city), warned of strict action if AQI sensors were found to be non-operational.
Earlier in the day, the Bombay high court said the authorities cannot blame ash clouds from the volcanic eruption in Ethiopia for the air pollution in India’s financial capital, as the AQI has been poor for a long time.
A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad was urged to take up the hearing of a bunch of pleas from 2023 on the issue of air pollution in the city.
