To beat the dust demon created by construction sites, in light of the abysmal air quality the city has been experiencing recently, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is adding a few more measures to its dust-mitigation guidelines. The civic body will make it mandatory to use anti-smoke guns and install sprinklers at construction sites. It is also thinking about raising the height of metal sheets that must be set up around them by 10 feet.

The city’s air quality index (AQI) on Thursday was worse than Delhi’s for the second consecutive day as a dense veil of smog enveloped the metropolis. On Wednesday, Mumbai`s PM10 (particulate material) level was 143 as opposed to Delhi’s 122. An AQI between 201 and 300 is categorised as poor while any figure above 300 is categorised as very poor by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology-managed System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR). On Thursday evening, the PM10 level of the city was 154 while Delhi’s was 119, according to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board.