MUMBAI: Immediately stopping all building and construction activities, entry of trucks and heavy cars to the city, shutting contaminating setups, and imposing odd and even plan for personal lorries are leading 4 emergency situation actions that have actually been recommended under the reaction strategy, if the city’s air quality index with PM2.5 and 10 continues with 300ug/m3 or 500ug/m3 levels respectively for 48 hours which is thought about as ‘really serious’ contamination. With innovation suppliers being asked for by markets and BMC to set up contamination control gadgets in the city to enhance air quality, the state contamination control guard dog, MPCB, has actually established an examination committee with personal markets, innovation companies, MPCB and BMC officers as members and agents. The committee will examine and evaluate efficiency of the strategies to make educated choices on their adjustments, stated MPCB member secretary Avinash Dhakne in a letter released to numerous federal government workplaces. The committee will assess and compare methods on numerous requirements – effectiveness, expense efficiency, ecological effect, and will establish a basic assessment structure besides prompt check of their efficiencies and recommending treatments. Track the contamination level in your city The state federal government too has actually put out a variety of standards in this regard. Unlike BMC, which had actually recommended 35ft tin sheets around building and construction websites having a height of over 70 metres, the state standards recommend 25ft high tin sheets around building websites having height of more than 50 metres (see graphic). MPCB has actually developed a list of circumstances vis-a-vis air quality index levels and has actually recommended action to be started in such circumstances by various authorities. If AQI is in ‘extreme’ classification where PM2.5 or PM10 concentration worth of 300ug/m3 or 500ug/m3 respectively continues for 48 hours, entry of trucks, heavy cars into city have actually to be stopped by traffic cops and RTO, building activities have actually to be stopped by the community corporation or MPCB and other steps have actually to carried out to suppress contamination levels. “The graded reaction action strategy is a system that unites several stakeholders and authorities to avoid more degeneration of air quality once it reaches a particular limit in Mumbai city. Execution of GRAP at ward level is vital for taking suitable procedures to resolve various levels of air contamination as per the AQI, especially with recommendation to episodic increases in contamination levels due to winter season weather condition conditions,” stated Dhakne in his letter to community authorities. Air quality of Maharashtra with keeping track of information readily available is primarily observed to be in the variety of ‘satisfying (PM2.5: 31-60ug/ m3, PM10: 51-100 ug/m3) to reasonably contaminated’ (PM2.5:61 -90 ug/m3, PM10: 101-250ug/ m3) for which procedures have actually been recommended in non-attainment city action strategies. Upon NGT’s instructions to establish emergency situation reaction systems, consisting of the graded reaction action strategy, for the state, came the reaction strategy to be executed by different authorities, the letter stated. In case of serious AQI condition where PM2.5 or PM10 concentration is 250 ug/m3 above and 430ug/m3 plus respectively, hiking of parking costs 3-4 times to prevent personal cars, and increasing city, regional and bus services have actually been recommended.
Mumbai Air Pollution: MPCB lists multitude of steps if AQI worsens
