Even as Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had formed a task force on dust mitigation to reduce pollution, it has been unsuccessful in procuring electric vehicles (EV) on contract basis. Unable to find EV cars, one of the richest civic bodies in the nation has instead decided to settle for 98 CNG cars which it will procure on contract basis. Ironically, these cars running on conventional fuels will be used by the dust mitigation task force to patrol the wards.

As per the EV policy declared by the state government in 2021, in order to boost the EVs in the state, it decided to convert all conventional fuel cars in the service of government departments and local-self-government bodies into EVs. As per the policy, after April 2022 it is mandatory for the government bodies to procure only EVs, irrespective of whether it is purchased or on contract basis.