Ghaziabad: With Ghaziabad witnessed the increase in cases of dengue and malaria fever, the role of city citizenship institutions have now been under the scanner.
Residents claim that the outbreak of the disease transmitted through vectors has once again revealed the preparedness of the Municipal Corporation (GMC) Ghaziabad (GMC) and the Development Authority of Ghaziabad (GDA) in dealing with threats.
However, agents say that efforts to mitigate the outbreak of disease.
Nirmalendu Kumar, a resident of Indirapuram, said, “For the past two months, Ghaziabad has witnessed a heavy shower, which caused stagnation of water in many places.
The road that runs parallel to the roads that are elevated and Vaishali and Vasundhara on the other hand has become a breeding place for mosquitoes .
“However, the official GDA AK Choudhary, who is responsible for Indirapuram, said,” While we do intensive drives in the area under our jurisdiction, the tender has now floated for doing anti-larval and fogging drives.
” Commissioner of the city of Mahendra Singh Tanwar said the fogging and anti-larval drive was being carried out in all wards.
“We work with the Anti-Malaria Department.
Vulnerable spots have been identified and fogging is being carried out on a war footing.” Until Sunday, a survey of more than 16,000 households was carried out and 205 dengue mosquito larvae found in places, including Kaushambi , Indirapuram, Govindpuram, Muradnagar and Loni, in accordance with the Ministry of Health officials.
Tanwar said that road repair work and disposal will begin at the end of this month.
“When the rain has subsided, we will drive road repairs and drain and for that a number of Rs 20 Crore has been set aside.”