To hold developers accountable for their environmental impact, it is mandatory for all construction sites in the city and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region to install sensor-based pollution monitors. Developers must comply within a month of the order being issued, failing which they will face heavy penalties, including site closure.

Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) Member Secretary Avinash Dhakne, an IAS officer, in a letter to all municipal corporations, has urged civic bodies to ensure that sensors are deployed at all construction sites to monitor pollution levels and the monitoring data should be made available for inspection to BMC and authorities. The sensors will help identify high-pollution areas and enable timely corrective action.