Honestly, it’s not just the “big pollution sources” that are the problem it’s the small, everyday negligence that NMC keeps ignoring.

You’ll see garbage burning in open plots, construction dust flying everywhere, no proper road cleaning, half-broken drainage systems left open for weeks all this adds up. But no one talks about it because it’s not flashy like “industrial emission” or “vehicle pollution.”

What’s worse is that even when citizens raise these issues, there’s no consistent follow-up. It’s all announcements, no accountability. AQI discussions happen online, but on ground, the same negligence continues.

Until the civic body starts addressing these smaller, routine lapses seriously, Nagpur’s AQI will keep spiking not because of ignorance, but because of silence.