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Mumbai to get India’s largest air quality monitoring network

General Studies (P. Patwari) Environment

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will develop an air quality monitoring network across 90 locations in Mumbai making it the largest network in India.
These stations will give location-wise updates on the quality of air. While 10 mobile sensors will collect samples from different parts of the city to analyze the air quality.
The decision was made as Mumbai saw a rise in particulate matter concentration by 80 per cent from 2007 to 2018 at PM10 which was eight times the international standards.