The city’s air quality index (AQI) deteriorated to 319 on Friday, the worst since the fire at the Deonar dumping ground on January 29, 2016, when it was 341. Unusually, parts of Mumbai recorded rains in the early hours of the day; in the last decade, the city had seen January rain only in 2014. …
As the problem of open burning rages across the city despite complaints, urban local bodies like BMC are coming under greater scrutiny for solid waste management and redressal mechanisms. Introducing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the kitchens of the poor under a government scheme is one solution that has helped reduce burning of biomass like …
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