Boost for Mumbais air quality: BMC set to launch dashboard to track pollution sources
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is launching an Air Quality Index (AQI) monitoring dashboard in January 2026 to track pollution sources and improve Mumbai's air quality.
New Delhi: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to launch a dashboard to monitor the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the first week of January 2026.
According to a report by Mumbai Mirror, the dashboard will enable BMC to track every project that is causing air pollution and take necessary action to improve Mumbai’s air quality. It will reportedly be developed completely by December.
Who developed the dashboard for BMC?
The report states that an organisation named Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) prepared the dashboard in an agreement with the state government and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). It also developed Thane Municipal Corporation's dashboard.
How will it track air pollution sources?
The organisation has shown BMC at its head office how the dashboard will work, and it will become operational from the first week of January 2026. It will collect real-time data from the city's different areas and display information on pollutants like PM2.5, PM10, and nitrogen oxide, enabling BMC to track the source of air pollution and take necessary steps to control it.
BMC currently has in its jurisdiction the construction of 1,954 projects, with 683 projects having air quality monitoring sensors. But only 561 projects have reportedly linked their data to the Central Pollution Control Board server. The data from many more projects will be connected, and there is a push to install the sensors in other projects.