MUMBAI: With the city adding more high-rises and highways in the last decade, road dust now makes up over 71% of the particulate matter in Mumbai’s air, as opposed to 28% in 2010, says a study by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).
The source-identification study for air pollution in Mumbai was repeated recently nearly a dozen years after it was first done in 2010 by NEERI.
The findings were presented during a town hall with experts in the run-up to World Environment Day, June 5.