Metro contractor fined for dumping debris in Pattandur Agrahara lake

Bengaluru | Thursday | 22nd February, 2018

Summary:

In the past, subcontractors had been found dumping debris by the side of roads and even on metro medians. According to Sandeep Anirudhan, a resident who is part of Save Pattandur Agarahara Lake group, said more than three trucks, with the stickers of BMRCL, dumped debris in the lake through the night. This is the same spot where the BBMP was dumping debris to construct a 80-feet Varthur Kodi–ITPL link road in violation of the National Green Tribunal orders on buffer zones. more-inMuch to the chagrin of residents, months after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) started dumping debris on the periphery of Pattandur Agrahara lake at Whitefield for a road project, a Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd.

(BMRCL) contractor on Tuesday night dumped truckloads of excavation debris in the waterbody. The contractor in-charge of the metro construction at Whitefield had subcontracted the transfer of debris..