Pollution Watch
These pictures were taken just adjacent to the Chetpet over bridge in Chennai. A large cache of old tyres were being burnt there.
I am happened to go there for a morning walk and the foul odour of the place drove me to the source and I clicked some snaps.
What’s depressing is the attitude of the authorities as there is absolutely no safe guard against such environmental hazards.
The proximity to a large water body, and the adjacency to a bustling railway tracks are flashpoints for a catastrophe waiting to happen.
The burning of tyres is also a serious health as the stench and the effluents being let in to the air were dispersed into a very wide area.
High time, the authorities woke up and did something about this.
