The Hindu 22.12.2010
‘Control mosquito menace'
COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has been asked to control mosquito menace.
Shortage
In a release, R.R. Mohan Kumar, urban district secretary, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, said that mosquito control programme in the civic body had not being going in the desired pace, because it suffered from shortage of conservancy staff.
That had resulted in garbage piling up and sewage stagnating across the city and mosquito breeding thereon.
The Corporation should on a war footing fill up all the vacant posts keeping in mind the health of residents.
Mr. Kumar also asked the civic body to take adequate steps to close the pits it had dug for laying pipelines for the underground drainage system.
In many a place, contractors engaged for the work were not levelling the earth and that had caused accidents. The problem was compounded during rain.
Swine flu
The Corporation should also take up door-to-door administration of medicine to fight swine flu, he added.
