Edited By: Oindrila Mukherjee
Last Updated: March 13, 2023, 02:40 IST
Mumbai has been reeling from poor air high quality over the previous few months and reviews present that it had unhealthy air for greater than 270 days out of 365 final 12 months. (Image: AP/File)
The BMC mentioned air high quality in the Mumbai area, together with the metropolis, is unhealthy due to adjustments in wind velocity circumstances mixed with mud rising from numerous improvement and building works
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has determined to type a seven-member committee as Mumbai has already recorded 66 ‘bad’ air days in 2023. The panel could have to submit a report inside seven days, on the foundation of which measures can be taken to sort out rising air air pollution, resembling stopping building work.
The committee can be chaired by extra municipal commissioner (western suburbs) Dr Sanjeev Kumar. “The air quality in the Mumbai region, including the city, is currently bad due to changes in wind speed conditions combined with dust rising from various development and construction works. In view of this, dust is the main factor responsible for air pollution,” said a press launch issued by the BMC.
The committee was fashioned by BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal in a gathering held on Sunday. Based on the committee’s report, the closing normal working process for mud management can be finalised and carried out from April 1 in areas underneath the civic physique. Chahal mentioned in case of violation of any rule underneath this SOP, a ‘stop-work notice’ can be issued together with different motion.
“The air pollution situation is like never before in the Mumbai Metropolitan region. In the post-Covid period, dust generated by large-scale construction as well as development works, changes in the wind speed have been found to be the two main factors. Although natural conditions are out of human control, at present, there are more than 5,000 sites in Mumbai where various works are ongoing, it is in the hands of the administration to keep a check on that,” learn the BMC launch.
Data compiled of non-Covid associated respiratory illnesses, together with bronchial asthma, confirmed that roughly 13,444 individuals died due to these sicknesses in the final 5 years in Mumbai. Experts additionally attributed this to the poor air high quality in the metropolis.
Over the previous few months, Mumbai has consistently been reeling from poor air high quality and reviews present that it had unhealthy air for greater than 270 days out of 365 final 12 months.
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