India, Feb. 24 -- The Pune Municipal Corporation has served stop-work notice to 158 construction site owners for causing dust pollution following numerous complaints by citizens. The initial notice, on February 21 was issued to 208 realtors, out of which 50 complied with the notices to which the building permission department had given its assent to continue with the construction work.

Commenting on the development, Rajesh Bankar, superintendent engineer of PMC building permission department said "We had served notices to 208 projects which were causing dust pollution. Around 50 of them have complied and we have asked them to carry ahead with the construction work. For the remaining, stop work notices have been issued, and a detailed on-...