The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued stop-work notices to 53 construction sites for contributing to air pollution. The initiative by the BMC comes as the city grapples with a deteriorating Air Quality Index (AQI).

The civic body on Thursday also directed that the air pollution guidelines it had laid down should be followed strictly. These include installing sensors to monitor AQI that remain operational all the time, as reported by news agency PTI.