Mosquito Control: DNCC launches crash programme
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) authorities yesterday launched a two-week crash programme for mosquito control, amid a rise in mosquito population in the capital partly due to subdued activities of city corporations because of the recently-concluded city polls.
"All 54 wards of DNCC will come under the crash programme," said panel mayor of DNCC Jamal Mostafa, while inaugurating the programme at Police Staff College in Mirpur-13.
"We hope city dwellers will get its benefit," he said, adding that the programme will continue till February 28.
Jamal said they will use fogger machines, wheel-barrow machines and vehicle-mounted foggers to kill mosquitoes.
Jamal said 10 workers -- who will be outsourced -- will join regular workers in every ward. Five of them will help spray adulticide and larvicide through fogger machines and hand spray, while five others will identify hotspots of Aedes and culex mosquitoes, he said.
The waste management division will also remain active, Jamal said.
The move comes at a time when residents of different parts of the city have been suffering from mosquito menace over the last one month, as no significant efforts were seen on the city corporations' part in recent weeks.
Residents of areas including Pallabi, Mirpur, Basabo, Gendaria, Mohammadpur, Kamrangirchar, Hatirpool, Moghbazar, Manda, Dogair, Dania and Uttarkhan said they have been facing a higher level of mosquito invasion into their households.
The situation has deteriorated for the last couple of weeks as regular mosquito control drives were not sufficient in his area, said Anowarul Islam, a resident of Gendaria.
The "DIT plot pond" at Gendaria, which has been out of any cleaning activities for the last several years, has become a major breeding source of mosquito, he said.
Fatima Urmee, a resident of Mirpur-12, said they have been suffering for mosquito menace since the beginning of winter.
"It is really tough to sit in room without using any mosquito repellent or net," she said.
Meanwhile, an official of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) said they are continuing their adulticide and larvicide-spraying work to control mosquito population.
He said they are visiting at least 15 houses in a ward per day, to identify Aedes mosquito breeding grounds and destroying those.
He said they are also holding meetings involving entomologists to get recommendations to control Aedes mosquito.
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