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Kengeri’s tanker terror
Residents of Kengeri file a
complaint against
Vrishabhavathi river on the
Kumbalgodu stretch
Madhuri Mandava a 43-year-old resident of Good Earth Malhar Footprints, in Kengeri is an environmentalist and an active member of the
Bangalore Environment Trust. Mandava with the help of the Trust filed a complaint with the Kumbalgodu police on April 3.
They had approached the Karnataka State Pollution Board (KSPB) too, stating that a pervasive chemical smell resulting from toxic discharges via tankers would cause headaches and nausea and keep the residents up at night.
“The residents can hear the tankers pull up and dump chemicals at night between 12 am to 1 am. This has been going on for years. This resumed again a few weeks back and we could smell the chemical while being dumped in the river. We would stay alert every night and inform the police as soon as we heard these tankers pulling up.