The Hindu 14.11.2013
Municipality takes up drive to prevent dengue outbreak
A two-day special drive for clearing garbage in all the
wards in the town was taken up by the Pudukottai municipality here on
Wednesday.
The drive forms part of the ‘cleanliness
week’ programme currently in progress in the district to prevent dengue
and other epidemics during monsoon.
A total of 150
sanitary workers, specially nominated from among the women members of
self-help groups, were pressed into service for collecting garbage and
clearing plastics at various places in the town.
With
Pudukottai accounting for a large number of tanks, the cleanliness
programme was taken up to keep the town monsoon-ready , said S.A.Sait,
Municipal Chairman (in-charge), who inspected the work at Mela
Nainarikulam in the town.
C. Vijayabaskar, Health
Minister, who presided over a meeting last week on modalities to check
dengue, pointed out that preventive steps must be taken against outbreak
of diseases on priority.