Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has announced for intensive fogging drive from September 22, to fight against ades mosquito.
“Accordingly, the drive will begin with 200 fogging machines and by September 26, 600 machines will be deployed,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.
“We will make Delhi mosquito-free,” Sisodia announced at a Press conference on Tuesday. “Although fogging is the job of the municipal bodies but we will supplement their efforts since it is a period of crisis. We have prepared a comprehensive plan according to which fogging will be undertaken in each and every lane of Delhi every alternate day,” he said.
Meanwhile Dr RK Singal, Director Internal Medicine at BlK hospital said if the corporations and the Government had taken mosquito breeding measures earlier, the present scenario of health crisis in Delhi could have been avoided. “The fogging which would be done now is just symbolic. It will not show good results.”