With Mumbai seeing no respite from the effects of rising air pollution, former environment minister Aaditya Thackeray has written a letter to Bhupendra Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEF&CC), alleging that in the absence of a full time environment minister and lack of sensitivity towards public issues, the state government has worsened the crisis.

Thackeray, who is MLA from the Worli constituency, has also made policy suggestions for tackling the crisis in Maharashtra. The air quality index (AQI) in Mumbai and Maharashtra have been deteriorating over the last few months, with AQI levels ranging from poor to very poor.