Residents of Govandi and Deonar, taking a cue from the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, are now aiming to get their own portable air quality monitoring devices to boost their fight against the biomedical waste treatment plant in their area. They have already moved the National Green Tribunal against the state government, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board and SMS Envoclean—which runs the city’s sole biomedical waste treatment plant.

They said they will share the readings from the devices with the authorities to support their demand to send all biomedical waste to Taloja. Locals alleged that neither the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation nor MPCB is taking serious note of the health complications and hazards they face every day due to the polluted smoke emanating from the plant.