Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) conducted a special drive in all its zones in a bid to intensify its efforts across the city to prevent and control vector borne diseases.
A senior official of the civic body said, “Several measures are being taken by MCD to control the diseases. Under this, a special drive has been conducted in all the 12 zones of MCD to check all MCD schools and other educational institutes for breeding of mosquitoes.”
He added that in this special drive, 2370 MCD schools and educational institutes have been checked. “The breeding of mosquitoes was detected in 360 places and destroyed then and there. 235 legal notices and 67 prosecutions have been issued against the defaulters,” the officer claimed.
During the special drive, all the head of the schools and educational institutes were advised to take preventive measures for the prevention and control of breeding of mosquitoes. “Vector Borne Diseases like Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunya are transmitted through Aedes and Anopheles mosquitoes. These mosquitos breeds in the clean stored water i.e. drums, coolers, tin, flower pots, money plants, overhead tanks etc,” he said, adding that this can be prevented very easily preventable by not allowing water stagnation at source.
