Civic chief I S Chahal recently issued pollution-mitigation guidelines to improve the city’s lamentable air quality. However, his instructions seem to have fallen on deaf ears, as no such measures have been implemented on the site where Metro-3 work is being carried out a stone’s throw away from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters. Civic officials, meanwhile, claim that they have started issuing intimation notices to construction sites and will soon start making field visits to ensure the guidelines are implemented.

A Metro Aqua Line 3 site near the BMC headquarters that has not been covered with tarpaulin, a clear violation of the civic body’s dust-mitigation guidelines, on Mahapalika Marg on Thursday. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi