Bandra-Khar and BMC team up to control the mosquito menace
Bandra and Khar residents’ associations team up with BMC to control the menace of dengue and malaria. Residents association and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will carry out inspection of building premises and conducting random checks of flats in suburbs.
Bandra and Khar residents’ associations will carry out inspection of overhead tanks to ascertain whether they are mosquito-proof and find out if they are a potential breeding site. Launching the drive, additional municipal commissioner Manisha Patankar-Mhaiskar said that phases I and II of BMC’s anti-malaria drive focused on slums and under- construction sites. For phases III, he requested the cooperation of residents to focus on building premises.
The pest control drive was kicked off at a meeting organised by Union Park Residents’ Association (UPRA) and Senior Citizens’ Advanced Locality Management Association (SALMA) at YMCA. The drive will cover constiuencies of all the corporators falling under the H-West ward. This apart, the UPRA has also carried out intensive awareness on their community radio station. It has already distributed pamphlets on do’s and don’ts .
Source: Times of India
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