Dengue mosquito-breeding found at DTU, DTC depot, DDA office

DDA and Delhi Technical University are among several institutions in the capital that have been penalised for failing to check breeding of dengue mosquitoes on their premises.
According to a report released today, nine VIP challans have been issued by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) after positive breeding were found at their premises.
Mosquitoes were found breeding at the university's civil engineering department, DDA's Ring Road office, Punjab and Singh Bank branch in Rohini, and DTC depot in Shadipur.
According to the NDMC report, the domestic breeding checking (DBC) workers also visited 1,40,05,913 houses and found positive breeding in 24,414 spots and issued legal notice to 25,579 houses for positive breeding.

The public health department issued challans to 2,371 houses for mosquito-genic conditions, it said.
Over 5,500 dengue cases and six deaths were registered in the Delhi last year. However, this year 40 cases have been reported in the national capital till September 6. The decline has been attributed to delayed rains and the preventive drive undertaken by the civic bodies much before the onset of momsoon.

According to a report released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, the nodal agency responsible for preparing the report on the disease, of these 40 cases, 33 have been reported from Delhi while seven from other states.

While figures for various corporations in Delhi are - 3 (North Corporation), 18 (South Corporation) and five (East Corporation), six cases were reported from regions in Delhi outside the jurisdiction of the three municipal corporations and seven from neighbouring states, the report said.
According to a report released last month by the civic body, it had issued challans to over 40 institutions, where breeding were found, including six cases at LNJP Hospital and three at the Civic Centre, the headquarters of the NDMC.
The national capital had witnessed a large number of dengue cases in 2010 with over 6,200 cases reported in the city. In 2009, 1,153 cases were registered, over 1,300 cases in 2008, and 1,131 cases in 2011 while 2,093 cases in 2012.

The municipal body said that larvivorus fish were released at 47 places in areas falling under the NDMC to prevent the breeding of the female aedes mosquito, which causes the vector-borne disease.