NKDA takes steps to prevent mosquito-borne diseases

Kolkata: New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has taken up elaborate schemes to prevent mosquito-borne diseases in New Town, Sector V and its neighbourhood.

Massive awareness drives have conducted where the residents are requested to use mosquito nets at night and clean the containers used to store water at least once a week.

They have been requested to ensure that the underground reservoirs and overhead tanks are properly covered.

NKDA has set up teams that are visiting different areas to spray mosquito repellents. NKDA is uploading the schedule of the teams

and the areas they will visit to spray mosquito repellent so that the residents of the areas remained

informed.

NKDA has engaged an entomologist and he along with his research team has prepared the blueprint of the anti-larvae drive.

Chemicals mixed with water are being sprayed in water bodies as a part of the anti-larvae drive.

It may be mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked all the civic bodies to take up anti-larvae drive seriously.

It may be mentioned that Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) had started awareness programme from January as the breeding

season of the mosquitoes has changed due to global warming.

City-based entomologists said the larvae take seven days to become adult mosquitoes and if the containers, where water is stored is cleaned once a week, then the growth of the larvae can be checked and thus reducing the mosquito-borne diseases.