District Magistrate (DM) S Rajalingam, while reviewing the preparations for the month-long Special Communicable Disease Control Campaign and Dastak Abhiyan (door-to door drive) scheduled to be started from July 1, said that there should be no negligence and stressed the need for better coordination between the concerned departments. At a meeting held here on Sunday, the DM directed that proper arrangements should be made for effective control of vector-borne diseases in the city as well as in the rural areas. “If dirty water collection is found anywhere, action will be taken against the officer responsible for it,” he said, adding that for the success of the drive, the concerned departments should prepare their micro plans well in time and implement the same. “Special attention should be paid to those areas where cases of infectious diseases were more in the previous years. Block development officers (BDOs) should pay attention to cleanliness in the rural areas along with cutting the bushes with the help of sweepers and ensure spraying of anti-larvae. Shallow hand pumps should be identified and a red mark should be put on them. Along with this, people should be told not to use such hand pump water for drinking,” Rajalingam further said that the block and tehsil level meetings should be held to review the preparations as well as progress and in such meetings the presence of officers is mandatory. He asked the officers to organise programmes for awareness and prevention as well as identification of such places where there is a possibility of mosquito-borne disease cases. “The trained health workers should go door-to-door to inform people about prevention and treatment of communicable diseases,”he said. The DM expressed displeasure over the absence of officers of some departments in the meeting and directed to take action against the concerned. Chief Development Officer (CDO) Himanshu Nagpal said that through this campaign, it is our aim to spread the message of education and behavior change related to communicable diseases like dengue, malaria etc to every household and family. He said that in order to create awareness among children about communicable diseases, quiz related to it should be organised in schools and parents-teachers should be sensitised for prevention and treatment of communicable diseases by forming a WhatsApp group. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Sandeep Chaudhary said that the campaign starting from July 1 will run in two phases. In the first phase, the workers of the Malaria department will assess the vector density in the high risk areas identified on the basis of the statistics of mosquito borne diseases in the previous years while making area wise planning. The second phase will start from Dastak on July 17, in which ASHA and Anganwadi workers will visit homes and inform people about the dangers of communicable diseases and their prevention.