AQI as city’s new electoral battleground

Mumbai’s air quality has worsened recently, with pollution rising from safe to unhealthy levels. Many residents, like those in Wadala, are suffering persistent coughs and health problems because of dirty air. This has pushed clean air to the centre of the city’s municipal election debate, with people demanding stronger action from political parties. Experts warn that harmful pollutants in the air can increase heart and lung diseases and slow down the economy by affecting workers’ health. Critics say current policies focus too much on roads and flyovers, not on reducing pollution, and they call for better public transport, more electric buses, protection of green spaces like mangroves, and stricter controls on construction dust. Political manifestos now include clean-air promises, and voters will judge parties on how seriously they plan to tackle pollution.

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