New Delhi: South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has issued legal notifications up to 20 DTC bus depots for allegedly failing to curb mosquito breeding during the rainy season, the Civic body said on Tuesday.
City officials said the action was taken during a special travel from the SDMC Public Health Department to detect mosquito nets and examine the control steps at the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depot located in the city’s jurisdiction.
“The department, during his trip, found mosquito breeding on 23 of the 38 bus depots came under the jurisdiction of SDMC.
The reason behind the mosquito breeding is a collection of rainwater in memo items lying without supervision, desert coolers, etc..” After detecting the maintenance of mosquitoes, department Initiating legal steps on the takeover / care manager (depot) by issuing 20 legal notifications and one challenge against them, “Civic’s body said in a statement.
The bus depot was vulnerable to.
Is the DTC cluster bus depot in Sector-2, Sector – 22, sector-c, in Dwarka; Sukhdev Vihar, Khanpur, Vasant Vihar, Dichaou Kalan, among others, according to officials of the SDMC Public Health Department, Mosquito Breeding Increases in the Monsun of cases of diseases transmitted through vectors may rise.
According to a report issued by city companies, 82 cases of dengue fever have been recorded until August 21 this year.
Officials say that during the Hu season Jan, rainwater gets a ccumulated on a plug of vacant land, on the roadside, on the roof of the building and even on an unattended object provides a pleasant atmosphere for the breeding of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, which is known for spreading a disease transmitted through vectors such as dengue fever, malaria and Chikungunya.
Further statements say mosquito breeding is destroyed in a place where it is detected in the bus depot.
Insekticide spray is also used by Civic staff.
Civil officials are directed at coordinating with care / manager of the bus depot and arranging workshops to take anti-mosquito steps in place, the statement reads.