Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) on Sunday fined owners after Aedes mosquito larvae was detected in ten buildings, including an under-construction house of real estate developer South Breeze Housing, during an anti-mosquito drive.
After inspecting 114 houses and under-construction buildings, three DSCC mobile court teams fined Tk 2,30,500 and filed ten cases after finding environment conducive to Aedes breeding in ten of them.
The drive was led by Zonal Executive Magistrate Merina Najnin and Suye Men Joe in the city’s Dhanmondi, Jhilpar area of Mugda and West Jurain areas.
Executive Magistrate of DSCC Zone-2, Suye Men Joe said, “ Today we have collected fines from owners of three buildings in Jurain after finding excessive amounts of larvae in them.”
Also ten building owners were warned to improve the environment in a couple of days so that Aedes mosquitoes can’t breed there, he added.
In defiance DSCC will fine the owners with highest amount, he added.
The drive came amid a rise in the number of dengue patients with authorities reporting 105 news cases in 24 hours until Sunday morning.
Across Bangladesh, some 460 patients diagnosed with dengue are receiving treatment for the disease as of Sunday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The vast majority of them are in the capital.
Source: United News of Bangladesh