Dig 30 feet anywhere in the Pudupet area of Chennai and you will strike oil! This is how a
grimy enclave of the southern city is often referred to, in mirth, by those in the auto cluster.
For four decades, holeinthe wall businesses specialising in dismantling and scrapping of
old vehicles have drained out copious amounts of engine, gear oils from old clunkers directly
into the ground, unmindful of what it does to the water table and the environment. The talk of
an oil reservoir underneath Pudupet stems from the evolution of the place.
It is estimated that nearly a hundred endoflife vehicles (ELVs) are stripped in Pudupet on
any given day. It's not the only one. There are several such informal, unregulated
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