On Tuesday, August 31, Mumbai’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed at one person was injured in a landslide reported in Mumbai’s Saki Naka area.
According to reports, in an incident that took place late on Monday night, some stones slid on a top of a house near a public toilet on GMM Road in Saki Naka. A 47-year-old man sustained injuries and was rushed to a nearby civic hospital, where he was treated and discharged later.
Meanwhile, the BMC had earlier evacuated 100 people from Kurar village in Malad after rocks slid from a hill, as heavy rains lashed the western suburb in the morning hours.
On the other hand, according to a report by 'Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon', experts have revealed that air pollution also affects the country's monsoon rainfall.
From 1951 to 2019, the average of southwest monsoon rains has reduced. This situation will continue for the next few years and air pollution will play a major role in this. “Air pollution is expected to decrease the southwest monsoon rainfall by 10 to 15 per cent across the country. In some places, rainfall can be as low as 50 per cent. It can also affect the overall dynamic of the monsoon, such as delay in its onset. In addition, the surface temperature cannot rise to the expected level. The presence of atmospheric pollutants reduces global warming to a lesser extent, said Dilip Ganguly, associate professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences at IIT Delhi to media persons.
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