BMC: Infra project contractors should enlist pollution sources at site, mitigation plan

While the BMC has acceptable an archetypal deadline of October 15 and volition supply a further hold of 30 days for the submission of the plan, a elder authoritative said that the agencies delaying the submission volition beryllium penalised and eventually, issued a halt enactment notice. The implementation of the program comes astatine a clip erstwhile citizens are grappling with deteriorating aerial prime index.

With the metropolis gearing up for the withdrawal of monsoons, the aerial prime successful Mumbai is apt to witnesser further worsening during winters — connected October 1, erstwhile hardly a time aft showers had subdued, respective pockets similar Mulund, Colaba, Worli saw the aerial prime deteriorate by implicit 50 per cent.

The BMC was seeking to code aerial contamination emerging from operation sites which the Mumbai Air Pollution Mitigation Plan (MAPMP) has identified arsenic 1 of the cardinal contributors to the burgeoning AQI levels successful the city. The MAPMP had enlisted an array of contamination power measures which included the charting of mitigation plans for city’s infrastructural works.

Now, the BMC has started implementing the program with elder officials stating that the EMP volition person to beryllium submitted by the contractors executing infrastructure works to the civic section concerned.

“Essentially, the study volition necessitate the agencies to place activities connected their operation tract which volition degrade aerial prime and they volition person to enlist they absorption program to power and mitigate the identified root of pollution,” a BMC authoritative told The Indian Express.

While the conception of a “pollution management” study is not unprecedented with developed mandated to taxable akin plans to the MPCB, a elder authoritative from BMC said that this the archetypal clip that the municipal corp is implementing the program for contractors connected civic infrastructural projects.

“The study volition besides necessitate the executing bureau of the task to place a idiosyncratic who volition look aft the implementation of the plan. This study volition person to beryllium submitted to the enforcement technologist of the acrophobic civic department,” explained an official. For the easiness and convenience of the contractors, the BMC’s situation section has finalised a template chalking respective required details, connected the ground of which the study has been sought.

“In lawsuit of delayed submission of the report, the bureau acrophobic volition beryllium levied a good of astir Rs. 1,000. If they neglect to further adhere by the submissions, we volition initiate further enactment specified arsenic issuance of halt enactment notice,” added the officer.