Tiruchi Corporation penalises eight property owners for failing to check mosquito breeding
The Tiruchi Corporation has fined eight residential property owners a total of ₹24,000 for failing to prevent mosquito breeding. The city has deployed hundreds of workers to eliminate breeding sites to combat the spread of dengue.
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Highlights municipal efforts to manage public health crises and enforce sanitation regulations in urban areas.
Tiruchi Corporation has imposed fines totalling ₹24,000 on owners of eight residential properties for failing to eliminate mosquito breeding sources.
The civic body has deployed 400 ‘domestic breeding checkers’ to prevent the breeding of aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue. The workers inspect streets and houses across the city, identify and eliminate mosquito breeding sources, apply larvicide abate and carry out fogging operations.
Corporation Commissioner N. Ponmani conducted door-to-door inspections in Wards 35 and 49 in Zones II and III on Friday and identified potential breeding sites in residential properties and buildings under construction. The officials found mosquito breeding sources in eight residential properties and imposed fines on them.
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