India, Dec. 31 -- A day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued a stop-work notice to the upcoming Bombay High Court (HC) complex in Bandra East for violating its air pollution mitigation guidelines, Hindustan Times on Tuesday found that metal sheets have been erected around the worksite, signalling better compliance. But residents of the area claimed that the metal sheets were inadequate given the quantum of dust pollution; they also said that sanitation lines in the area were damaged or blocked by debris from the site.

On Tuesday, HT also visited the bullet train project site and the adjacent Metro line 2B project site at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC); the BMC had issued stop-work notices to contractors of the two sites ...