The Hindu 14.10.2010
Mosquito control measures intensified
Special Correspondent
| Corporation launches anti-fogging operations covering 10 wards |
CHECK: Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy, second from left, inspecting the anti-mosquito fogging operation at Khajapettai in Tiruchi on Wednesday.
TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi Corporation has intensified its mosquito control measures in the city in the wake of widespread complaints from the public and its elected representatives.
The Corporation has launched anti-mosquito fogging operations on a rotational basis covering 10 wards every day. This way, the civic body has chalked out a plan to cover all the 60 wards in a cycle of six days.
Corporation Commissioner T.T.Balsamy, who inspected the operation in Khajapettai area in Ariyamangalam zone on Wednesday, said that steps have also been taken to control mosquito breeding by spraying bio-larvicide in drainages, storm water drains and open places prone for water stagnation. Special teams of sanitary workers have been formed zone wise to take up the operation in all the four zones of K.Abishekapuram, Ariyamangalam, Golden Rock and Srirangam. They would also inspect residential areas and households to check for water stagnation in open places and in discarded containers in houses.
To control adult mosquitoes, a van mounted fogging machine and 18 hand fogging machines were being used. The Corporation was also engaged in sensitising residents through community organisers and self help groups on the need to prevent stagnation of water in open places and the measures to be taken to check mosquito breeding, Mr.Balsamy said in a press release.
Jerome Arockiaraj, Corporation Ariyamangalam zone chairman, K.C.Cheran, City Health Officer, and other officials were present on the occasion.
