Highways files complaint against illegal dumping of sewage

Chennai: National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has taken cognisance of a complaint filed by a social activist against illegal dumping of sewage in storm water drains and waterbodies along the highways by sewage-cleaning trucks.
Social activist Pugalventhan Venkatesan had complained to NHAI in January with a video and photographs showing a sewage lorry dumping waste into a storm water drain near Poonamallee.
Three days ago, NHAI took cognisance of his grievance and said they have lodged a police complaint in the Poonamallee police station to take action against the trucks.
“Assistant commissioner of police (traffic), Ambattur, was requested to take action on trucks being parked over the cover of the drain and to not allow vehicles to pump sewage into the drains,” the letter written by P T Mohan, project director, PIU, Kancheepuram said.
NHAI has asked the collector of Tiruvallur to take action against people who are pumping sewage into the drain network and against those who dump garbage by the road.