The BMC will ask builders and civic contractors to provide electric heaters or electric stoves to the workers staying at construction sites. The decision aims to stop the burning of wood for cooking or to make fires to keep warm. The BMC issued guidelines for dust mitigation in the city last year after the air quality index (AQI) became worse than Delhi in October 2023. According to the guidelines, BMC has banned burning wood, tyres, and solid waste in Mumbai.

A BMC official told mid-day it was found that labourers living at construction sites burn wood to cook food and during the night, security guards burn tyres or wood to make a fire. “Burning anything in an open area in the city is banned. But we need to provide options to the labourers to cook food. So we will ask builders and government civil contractors to provide electric stoves and heaters to the labourers.