Pune's Construction-Site Air Quality Monitoring Mandate
Following a Maharashtra Pollution Control Board directive, Pune Municipal Corporation issued a circular on 15 December 2025 requiring all construction projects of 5,000 square metres or more, plus all PMC infrastructure projects, to install sensor-based PM2.5/PM10 monitors with on-site LED pollution displays. PMC launched a real-time monitoring dashboard on 25 February 2026, integrating site sensor feeds so high-pollution sites can be flagged for inspection, after a co-location study with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pashan) to validate the sensors. As of the February 2026 launch, PMC had not published a penalty schedule for non-compliant sites, and the dashboard's public accessibility beyond municipal staff is unconfirmed.
🎓 Lesson
A sensor mandate that flags sites for inspection is only real once inspections follow — Pune's dashboard went live before any published penalty for a non-compliant site.
📖 Terms in this entry: Low-emission zone · Urban sensor network · Adaptive traffic signals
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's Construction-Site Air Quality Monitoring Mandate” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-construction-air-quality/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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