Mosquito menace: 3,000 legal notices sent to construction sites

Construction sites have emerged as the new mosquito-breeding grounds in the Capital. The three municipal corporations of Delhi have issued 2,850 legal notices. Besides this, 81 sites have been challaned and their developers will have to appear in court.

While the East Delhi Municipal Corporation has issued 300 legal notices, South Corporation issued around 2,000 notices and the North Corporation issued around 550 notices for “not taking appropriate measures” and allowing “mosquitoes to breed.”

“Besides issuing notices, we have issued 81 challans to the developers of construction sites for not following norms. Construction sites are potential hot spots for breeding, as most of the times the contractors do not take measures against collection of water,” said a senior East Corporation official.

“Action is being taken against defaulters in which the number of construction sites is high. Legal notices have been sent to all while the next step is prosecution,”

Mosquitoes mainly breed in artificial collection of clean water in desert coolers, uncovered storage containers, open septic tanks, broken pipes and old tyres etc. During the rains the possibility of accumulation of water becomes high.

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