The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has sent stop work notices to 158 construction sites for causing dust pollution following numerous complaints.
As per the report by HT, on February 21 was issued to 208 realtors. The action was taken due to violations of air pollution mitigation guidelines. However, notices of only 55 sites were revoked for complying with the mitigation measures.
Pune is currently home to more than 10,000 active construction projects, many of which are failing to adequately tackle dust pollution.
In November 2023, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) took action to minimize pollution in accordance with the Bombay High Court's directives and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board's (MPCB) rulings and issued guidelines.
The construction activities near PPS #Hinjawadi create health problems for children. @midc_india@OfficialPMRDA @Kumarproperties @MahaHealthIEC@InfoDivPune
— Megapolis Hinjawadi Residents (@MegapolisResdnt) February 12, 2025
The road gets damaged, with dust and #pollution. @mpcb_official@CPCB_OFFICIAL @staywellnews#MegapolisPune #Pune pic.twitter.com/Csb4A1jAsd
Guidelines are as follws:
Vehicles transporting building materials must be equipped with a vehicle tracking device; otherwise, the police will seize the vehicles. Vehicles that are overloaded, uncovered, or spilling construction materials on the road should all be addressed by the transportation department. The ward offices, according to city officials, will have teams of engineers, health inspectors, and security officers who must make sure that a developer building a structure more than fifty meters high has at least twenty-five feet of metal sheets covering it.Any construction project involving more than one acre must have 25-foot-high metal sheets surrounding the site. Wet green fabric and jute sheets must be used to enclose the buildings that are currently under construction on all sides. The identical process will will have to be followed at the site of a building demolition.
On building sites, water fogging will have to be done. Sensor-based air pollution monitors must be installed at all building sites.Sheets 20 feet high should be used to cover bridge, flyover, and elevated metro line building sites. Within 30 days, the steps must to be implemented at the construction site. The MPCB says that open burning of trash will be completely prohibited, and that public awareness of air pollution in public areas and schools should be raised.