Dust, air pollution at Shivaji Park: Among slew of steps, MPCB directs BMC to disallow digging, plant grass 

The MPCB has asked the BMC to works writer seedlings of autochthonal root connected the crushed by bifurcating the aboveground into patches. The authorities contamination committee has fixed the civic authorities a deadline of 3 months and maintained that the plantation should beryllium done earlier the accomplishment of monsoon successful June.

Meanwhile, the MPCB besides directed the BMC to name a contractor for carrying retired attraction of the crushed passim the year. “We person directed the BMC to disallow digging activities successful the ground. If there’s immoderate meeting, programme oregon gathering astatine the parkland past it should beryllium done without digging the apical furniture of the soil,” Kadam said.

In the archetypal week of January, the MPCB had fixed the civic authorities a 15-day deadline to travel up with a imaginable solution to mitigate the contented of particulate contamination astatine the ground. Following this, a sheet of experts made a tract sojourn and submitted a study to the contamination committee arsenic good arsenic the civic authorities pointing retired preventive measures.

Kadam besides said that the authorities contamination committee has besides mooted a connection for the BMC to acceptable up a mini Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) astatine the crushed that would supply non-potable h2o that could beryllium utilized for the crushed attraction works. “There are respective borewells successful the crushed whose h2o is utilized for sprinkling. However, present this h2o has started to go saline with seawater entering. Therefore, we person mooted the connection of mounting up a mini STP that tin gully h2o from immoderate adjacent sewage enactment and usage it for maintenance,” Kadam added.

Meanwhile, erstwhile contacted a civic authoritative acknowledged that they person received the guidelines. “The guidelines person been assessed and a tender volition beryllium floated. Initially the enactment for planting of seedlings volition beryllium awarded and we volition besides contented a announcement disallowing digging successful the park. The enactment of mounting up an STP could beryllium taken up successful a aboriginal phase,” the authoritative added.

Located successful Dadar astatine Central Mumbai, Shivaji Park is simply a 28-acre unfastened crushed that is thronged by sports enthusiasts, evening and greeting walkers, and tourists regularly. The parkland is besides a preferred determination for galore politicians for holding their governmental rallies for its determination being successful the bosom of the city.

However, the topography of this crushed is successful a barren information and the writer connected the aboveground has withered distant with time. As a effect the apical ungraded of this crushed comprises escaped reddish soil, which gets displaced easy starring to particulate contamination astatine the locality. Over the past 2 years, the section residents person raised aggregate complaints owing to this reddish particulate contented to the civic authorities.

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