Updated On: 25 November, 2023 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Sameer Surve
Of the 600-plus stop-work notices issued since guidelines were put out by BMC, 144 are in K East ward, that is seeing a high volume of construction activity

An under-construction bridge site opposite Ansa Industrial Estate at Saki Vihar Road, Andheri East. Pic/Sameer Markande
The BMC crackdown on construction sites violating dust-mitigation guidelines has revealed that one in every five construction sites that received the stop-work notice belongs to Andheri East. Over six hundred construction sites in Mumbai have been issued stop-work notices for violation of dust mitigation norms by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Twenty-one per cent of the 667 construction sites that have been pulled for its failure to control dust are from the K East ward which covers Andheri East and Jogeshwari East. According to the BMC data, K East ward issued stop work notices to the 144 construction sites. H East ward office which covers Bandra and Santacruz east part issued stop work notices to the 98 construction sites.