70% of the air emissions in the Colombo district, according to Nishantha Anuruddha Weerasinghe, Commissioner General of the Department of Motor Traffic.
Speaking to traffic police officials during an awareness programme in Colombo, he added that a technology will soon be ready to conduct drive-by testing to assess exhaust emissions from automobiles.
Weerasinghe continued by mentioning that anyone with information about the situation can contact the Department of Motor Traffic via WhatsApp and share photographs of any automobiles that are spewing unusually large amounts of black smoke.
“We’ll create a WhatsApp group with every police station in Sri Lanka [to gather this information].” We may file a lawsuit to stop such vehicles.
Furthermore, Weerasinghe assured that the relevant investigations would be expanded in the future.
