Mumbai will soon get five new permanent air quality monitoring stations. The five stations will add to the 28 monitors already operating under Safar, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
At present, the city has 14 CAAQM stations, 9 SAFAR stations, and 5 BMC stations. With the new units, Mumbai will have 33 CAAQM stations. The BMC will also buy four new mobile vans for air quality checks. The civic body now has only one such vehicle.
The new stations will come up in the following areas:
1. CD Deshmukh Park in Mulund West
2. Pramod Mahajan Park in Dadar West
3. Chhota Kashmir in Aarey-Goregaon East
4. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Recreation Ground in Dahisar East
5. K West ward office in Andheri West.
These sites were chosen after reviewing MPCB recommendations and identifying areas with no monitoring. The goal was to fill major gaps in the existing monitoring network. Mulund, Dadar, and Dahisar had no fixed stations earlier. Large areas like Dahisar were not tracked at all.
The new CAAQM stations will give more reliable data than low-cost sensor-based monitors. It will also reduce dependence on data from the Central Pollution Control Board. Mumbai now uses six BMC stations and fifteen CPCB stations. The remaining stations are run by IIT-Bombay.
The current stations are spread across Borivali East, Byculla, Chakala-Andheri East, Chembur, the international airport’s Terminal 2, Colaba, Deonar, Ghatkopar, Kandivli East, Kandivli West, Bandra East, Bhandup West, Mazagaon, Malad West, Mulund West, Navy Nagar, Powai, Sewri, Govandi, Sion, and Vile Parle West.
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