The Pioneer 24.08.2010
Gaur asks commissioner to start cleanliness drive
Staff Reporter | Bhopal
In view of the looming threats from swine flu and malaria, the Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur has directed the Urban Administration Department Commissioner SM Mishra to start cleanliness and public awareness campaign by the urban bodies. The Commissioner immediately issued instructions to all the municipal commissioners and chief municipal officers of the urban bodies to start the campaign.
Gaur has given this instruction at a meeting held here on Monday. Mayor Krishna Gaur, Divisional Commissioner Manoj Shrivastava, Bhopal Municipal Corporation Commissioner Manish Singh and other departmental officers were present.
Gaur said that cleaning campaign should be started in urban bodies and this should be regularly monitored. The urban bodies should appeal to the people not to allow water collect in pits and if water is collected they should spray kerosene or insecticides so that mosquitoes dont grow there. The residents should regularly clean and keep changing water of the coolers or if the coolers are not in use, drain the water from them so that mosquito is not grown in them.
Water tank, if any at home, should be kept closed. The residents are also advised to regularly spray anti-mosquito insecticide regularly at home and use mosquito net at night to escape from the menace of mosquitoes. The easy and traditional way to drive mosquitoes away from home is to burn leaves of Neem tree in the evening and allows the smoke spread in the rooms.
The Urban Administration Minister has also issued instructions to the urban bodies that they should run fogging machines in the evening in the residential colonies and markets. Gaur appealed the people that as far as possible they should drink water after boiling it thoroughly and cooling to escape from the water-borne diseases during the rainy season.
