Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief Bhushan Gagrani on Tuesday chaired the fifth meeting of the Coordination Committee for Air Pollution in view of the worsening air quality in the city. At the meeting, attended by the chief of the corporations from the Mumbai Metropolitan area, Gagrani, advising them to work on pollution mitigation, asked all civic officials to focus on a five-kilometre radius in areas where the Air Quality Index (AQI) is poor.

All areas have their guidelines for pollution mitigation, he said. On Tuesday, the overall AQI recorded in the city stood in the ‘moderate category’ at 145. On Sunday evening, the environment ministry’s SAMEER app recorded the city’s overall AQI at 180, marking the fourth consecutive day of thick smog. Earlier this week, the AQI briefly crossed the 200 mark in several places, entering the ‘poor’ category.