Harish Bhatia

Management Consultant

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

#Aarey is burning! The only green patch of mumbai is being burnt down by illegal settlers causing immense smoke every morning.@mpcb_official @ConserveAarey @mybmc @TOIMumbai @Dev_Fadnavis @RavindraWaikar need to resolve this soon.

[Manish Kumar @ManishKumar302]

This was at 11:42pm last night at Goregaon East #AareyDairy . And this is daily affair. #MPCB, #MyBMC #MyBMCwardPS #CMOMaharashtra can some take notice and get this curbed. Dairy owners burn waist with impunity making our life hell. #PMOIndia please intervene.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

Clean air, basic tar laid clean roads, hawker free mumbai - this is what the 74000cr should be used for. No one wants a Mumbai Eye wheel when the basics are shamefully lacking in #megacity #Mumbai
@mybmc @Dev_Fadnavis @maha_governor @TOIMumbai @mayor_mumbai

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@ganeshan_iyer @fayedsouza @mybmc That’s the dumbest thing to respond with.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@Nithin0dha @bryan_johnson @nikhilkamathcio Mumbai’s only green open space @AareyForest and Sanjay Gandhi National park is packed with culprits burnings trash, garbage, hay, trees everyday since last 6 months. See this. Adding to the already poor AQI

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

Can we collectively stand up against this current state of affairs? It’s this quality of life that we are building for Urban India. Sad truth of complete disregard by authorities and society as a whole.
@mybmc @mpcb_official @PublicGrievance @MumbaiPolice

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective.

Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure.

This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn.

Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing.

The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers.

I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country.

When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it.

In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term.

Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@selvaprathee Super interesting. Alas all talk and little action from our government as usual.
It’s a good step in a lot of other planned actions that need to be executed.
We do need a sensible way to rationalize vehicles on the road whilst creating solid alternate mass transport options.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@RoadsOfMumbai Forget society, my wife is not accepting me..

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

This is an issue that is going on for long and getting worse and frequent. @mybmc @RavindraWaikar @MumbaiPolice @mpcb_official #mumbai #mumbainews #pollution @oberoirealty

[Gautam Dalmia @g_dalmia]

@SanjeevKJIAS sir one big source for pollution is in Aarey colony where people are burning garbage & waste on a daily basis. Pls suggest a waste mgmt solution & enforce a strict ban on burning in the @mybmc pollution panel you are heading. Many kids have developed asthma

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@RavindraWaikar ji. Please make note of this heavy pollution caused by daily #fire in your constituency. Cow sheds across #AAREY in #mumbai are burning fires and causing #pollution.
Will appreciate your support in getting this stopped.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MumbaiPolice Thank you @MumbaiPolice will appreciate action and follow up on this as this problem is now growing rampantly and causing significant harm to the environment.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

Another day, another fire. Heavy smoke. Right next to a school. @maha_governor @Dev_Fadnavis @oberoirealty @CMOMaharashtra @mybmc @CPMumbaiPolice @TOIMumbai
These fires are now daily sight leaving mumbai with heavy smoke daily from the only remaining green patch of #Mumbai

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MumbaiPolice Here is another video proof from 15/01/2025.
This is extremely harmful for children walking to #school every morning at Mohan Gokhale road #goregaon and bad for overall #mumbai #pollution

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MumbaiPolice This here is a video from yesterday - 21/01. Same location. Goregaon East. Mohan Gokhale road. We even complaint to the fire brigade station, but no action taken.@MumbaiPolice

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

Can we act on this blatant crime to our environment before this beautiful green patch #AAREY of #Mumbai is burnt out @mybmc @mayor_mumbai @TOIMumbai @oberoirealty

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MTPHereToHelp traffic at Aarey is at standstill. Autos and bikes have jammed road by riding on the wrong side and blocking both sides of cars. Please send traffic police to manage this. It’s a mess. Haven’t moved since 25 mins.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@mayor_mumbai with road works and metro construction, mumbai is choked. plz get @mybmc to remove illegal hawkers and shops on all streets of western suburbs. #cleanmumbai

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MTPHereToHelp Thank you 🙏
Please resolve with a medium term solution as building new bridges will take time and this is now a daily major issue for all residents of suburbs.

[Harish Bhatia @Harishsbhatia]

@MTPHereToHelp @mybmc @mumbaitraffic @RoadsOfMumbai
WEH traffic is getting worse by the day. Please clear congestion points at airport flyover and Jogeshwari. 2 hours a day each way wasted for 1000s…

[Roads of Mumbai @RoadsOfMumbai]

The only way Mumbai can save its footpath is this 👇

Though highly risky, it might work.