News Today 01.11.2013
City Corp to distribute mosquito mosquito nets for poor
Chennai: Chennai Corporation will start
distributing mosquito nets in the city for the poor from next week,
Mayor Saidai Duraisamy said here on thursday.
Early this year, the Corporation had decided
to provide the nets to people residing near city’s waterways as part of
efforts to tackle the mosquito menace. This step is likely to benefit
over 70,000 Below Poverty Line residents.
The Mayor said distribution of the nets would begin by next week.
Appropriate
action has been taken against 23917 complaints received through e-mail,
he added. Earlier, DMK councillors were evicted after the Speaker
declined their plea to raise the reported prevalence of dengue in the
city.