The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started issuing fresh notices to real estate companies involved in construction work in Mumbai, asking them to install air pollution monitoring sensors at all project sites within the next 30 days.

6BMC’s data shows there are 1,200 such sites in Mumbai , and only 45 per cent of the real estate operators have installed the sensors.

“As of today, nearly 550 developers have installed these monitors, while around 200 of them are in the process of acquiring and installing them. The direction for installing these sensors was issued on the basis of a High Court order that came in 2023, when BMC was directed to monitor whether norms for containing dust displacement were followed in all the construction sites in Mumbai,” said a civic body officia

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