Doctors say excessive ranges of air air pollution in Mumbai are driving up circumstances of respiratory diseases within the metropolis. File pic/AP
In a letter to Bhupender Yadav, Union minister for atmosphere, forest and local weather change, Thackeray additionally stated Maharashtra doesn’t have an impartial atmosphere minister to look into the problem.
Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday wrote to the Centre elevating the problem of air air pollution in Mumbai, citing widespread building actions and lack of efficient supervision to management them.
In a letter to Bhupender Yadav, Union minister for atmosphere, forest and local weather change, Thackeray additionally stated Maharashtra doesn’t have an impartial atmosphere minister to look into the problem.
“In the past 6 months, the air quality in Mumbai has consistently been rated as “Poor” to “Very Poor” on the AQI (air high quality index). Other cities in Maharashtra are additionally posting regarding air high quality numbers,” he stated.
The complete metropolis is present process building, inflicting a considerable amount of mud and particles, a lot of which is left unattended and unchecked. Measures are wanted to assist the Urban Development Department and native our bodies perceive the consolidated impression building has on town’s atmosphere, he stated.
“Construction activity in Mumbai is widespread and lacks effective supervision,” the previous state atmosphere minister stated.
As per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), Mumbai’s air high quality index stood at a “moderate” 159 on Saturday. Flagging rising air air pollution in Mumbai, town civic physique lately arrange a panel to counsel mud management measures.
The metropolis has refineries and fertiliser vegetation on its japanese coast, and the round the clock industrial exercise there may be having a direct impression on the air high quality within the metropolis, Thackeray stated.
Residents within the neighborhood of locations like Mahul or Wadala are feeling the impression of the poor air high quality and foul scent, he added.
Thackeray stated the Centre ought to consider and relocate these vegetation away from town.
In 2022, Mumbai launched its Climate Action Plan, which was heralded by the local weather coverage neighborhood and coated by acclaimed journals worldwide.
He additionally requested to direct the related stakeholders within the metropolis’s civic administration to set up a local weather cell as was steered by the coverage plan.
With G20 occasions being held within the metropolis, its international repute is at stake, he stated. Most importantly, the well being of the residents ought to take priority over political variations, Thackeray stated.
He stated local weather change has had a severe impression on town’s climate patterns, altering the velocity and route of winds, and inflicting polluted air to stay inside the metropolis as a substitute of flowing in direction of the coast.
He additionally requested that authorities be directed to set up cellular sensors throughout town, saying the prevailing sensors don’t cowl its complete space.
This would supply extra insights for addressing the air high quality downside and assist reconcile knowledge authenticity of AQI at the moment measured, he stated.
Thackeray additionally raised the problem of Aarey Metro automotive shed, a bone of rivalry between the then Uddhav Thackeray authorities and the present Eknath Shinde-led authorities.
“The current administration in Maharashtra is focused on monetising the city’s green spaces. The healthy Aarey forest has been compromised against the city’s will and with vengeance,” he alleged.
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