Kolkata: With the number of Dengue cases up and around the Salt Lake area, Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sent a letter to the authorities of Banabitan in Salt Lake, asking them to clear the weeds overgrown in the park and keep a clean place to prevent mosquito breeding.
The civil authority told people, who regularly took their morning streets in the 70 hectare green room, had complained of bushes and hyacinth in the water.
This is the ideal breeding place for Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit dengue fever.
The BMC Authority recently checked the Karunamoyee bus terminus complex located adjacent to Central Park where Mosquito larva was found.
A Banabitan official said that they had also sent a letter to the authority of the citizenship, told the garbage from the adjacent fair land was often thrown in the banabitan complex.
“We regularly do cleaning work with the help of citizenship authorities but some garbage is often disposed of in a banabitan.
Also the hyacinth that can be seen is used to produce compost.
Until now, there have been no reports of staff influenced by dengue fever,” said an official .
The locals said that the late surge in dengue fever in the city had become a cause of concern.
“I have heard that some people who live in and around Karunamoyee are infected with dengue fever.
Being ordinary morning pedestrians and living close to Central Park, worries are bitten by mosquitoes always in my mind.
It would be better if the area was cleaned,” said Surajit Maji, a school teacher and resident of FD Block.
“Regular vector control measures have been taken in the past two years due to stress on Covid management.
Hopefully, Banabitan cleaning together with regular paraside spraying will help prevent a surge in bloody fever cases,” said Tamal Pal, HB Block residents.
The BMC area has seen a surge in cases in the past half a month, with more than 200 cases reported in Salt Lake and Rajarhat since October 1.
The number of cases is very low until the end of September this year when around 25 cases are reported.
According to the citizenship authorities, out of fresh dengue cases, around 60% have been reported from Salt Lake and most of them live around the Karunamoyee and Central Park area.
A 33-year-old woman has recently died of dengue in the Baguati area, becoming the first victim to fall in the BMC area of this year.
“We will warn people if stagnant water and mosquito larvae are found in their place.
If they fail to obey, notifications will be put home for neighbors to be considered,” said an BMC official.
Kolkata: Focus on Banful Cleaning After Salt Lake Dengue Spike
