Mumbai’s BMC Halts Prestige Towers for Air Pollution Violations
Representative AI image MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued a stop-work notice to Prestige Towers located at Mahalaxmi due to non-compliance with pollution mitigation guidelines. The notice details multiple violations concerning air pollution controls. The notice, delivered by the BMC’s G-South ward on November 28, outlines that the developer failed to surround the construction site with a 35-foot tin barricade, to regularly sprinkle water on the site during demolition, and to utilize stationary or mobile anti-smog guns during loading and unloading, among other directives set by the civic authority. Officials from the G-South ward reported that over the…