India, Dec. 23 -- A five-member committee, appointed by the Bombay High Court (HC) on November 28 to monitor the implementation of pollution-control measures across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, has concluded that most construction, demolition, industrial and roadwork sites are guilty of not complying with existing guidelines, despite the rules being in place. The report was presented to the HC on Monday by the committee, which had visited 36 sites.

The team also highlighted that Air Quality Index (AQI) monitors installed at construction and infrastructure sites are not integrated with any official pollution measuring system of the municipal corporations or the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB).

The division bench of chief justice Sh...