Visakhapatnam based the Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Council (APHRC) has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) here seeking action against the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT) for causing pollution in Vizag city by storing iron ore, coking coal, sulphur etc., in open yards.
Charging that the VPT, through its “brutal activities”, was affecting the “righty to life” of people of the steel city, APHRC secretary M. Shyam Prasad pointed out that the city residents, particularly those in the old city, were suffering from all sorts of pollution related diseases like asthma, bronchitis and lung infection. Due to the failure of the monitoring authorities like the AP Pollution Control Board and the Central Pollution Control Board the pollution level had increased gradually and now posing a grave threat to the residents, he said.
Mr. Prasad recalled that a similar complaint was filed against VPT in the year 2000 with NHRC.
