Following concerns of suspended particulate from the reddish ungraded astatine Shivaji Park causing accrued aerial contamination successful the aforesaid locality, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has called for mitigation measures to beryllium urgently implemented, including compaction with a roller and applying h2o to settee the dust. The determination came aft IIT-Bombay experts submitted a database of recommendations to combat the situation successful a presumption earlier this month.
With aggrieved section residents voicing concerns implicit the suspended particles blowing successful the air, the president of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) visited the tract and instructed the civic assemblage to instrumentality effectual mitigation measures successful the precinct. In a bid to question solutions, the BMC had past roped successful IIT Bombay Professor Virendra Sethi, who had submitted a database of recommendations connected January 13.
In airy of the report, the civic assemblage has present launched an contiguous acceptable of mitigation measures portion besides calling for a semipermanent broad survey into the matter.
Speaking astir the contiguous measures, a civic authoritative said that the BMC was acceptable to compact ungraded with a roller astatine Shivaji Park arsenic good arsenic spray h2o to settle the particulate and stabilise the soil.
The BMC has besides appealed IIT Bombay to behaviour a elaborate semipermanent probe to place a sustainable solution to mitigate aerial pollution. Earlier successful his presentation, civic officials said that prof Sethi had called for the request for survey of upwind travel patterns, enactment based readying and different related parameters.
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