Vizag Port launches the dust pollution mitigation work

The Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) celebrated the World Environment Day recently with the VPT Chairman, Mr Ajeya Kallam, launching the dust pollution mitigation work.

He inaugurated the pump house which has a 1,00,000-litre capacity groundwater tank and a water filling station which allows lorries to sprinkle water over the iron ore stacks and on roads in the ore handling complex (OHC) area to control dust pollution from the iron ore plots.

Saplings were planted along the GCB area abutting one town area and Coast Guard road along the south of the flyover opposite Essar.

Prof. T. Shivaji Rao, Chairman, Environment Monitoring Committee of VPT, Prof. S. Ramakrishna Rao, head of sub-committee on ambient air quality, Dr B. S. Sastry, head of sub-committee on Green Belt Development, and all heads of departments at the Port, senior officers, trade and workers participated in the tree plantation programme, Exim News Service informed.
 

(Source: Transport Weekly)