Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has found that dengue mosquitoes are breeding more inside houses compared to outdoor areas.
In response to this finding, BMC has altered its approach from previous year’s strategy.

So far, it has taken self-declaration from residents in 57,000 households in which people have to declare that they have freed their internal spaces from mosquito-breeding sources.This year, dengue cases in the city are marginally low compared to last year. So far this year, 85 cases have been reported in the city with 25 in July. Around this time last year, the city reported 102 cases.
BMC officials said the civic body has cleared 13 tractor loads of abandoned tyres and released gambusia fish to eat aedes larvae at 12 places identified as sensitive-breeding grounds.
“This time our approach is different. We found several dengue positive cases in posh localities and gated societies last year but we had been focussing on slums and other unorganised places. But this year, we have formed multiple teams to visit houses and take pledge from them in the shape of self-declaration, which also contains do’s and dont’s,” said city health officer (BMC), Deepak Bisoyi.
Besides, BMC has written to industrial clusters, various offices and agencies maintaining parks to take strict action to demolish mosquito breeding sources. Industrial premises, parks and vacant spaces mostly turn into mosquito dens in the monsoon till Oct apart from houses. Every Friday source destruction exercises are being carried out in wards, BMC officials said. Various govt and private offices and schools also have been directed to inspect mosquito breeding sources and destroy them.

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