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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has travel up with a caller measurement to power mosquito menace successful the city, and installed a ‘spot mosquito eliminator’ instrumentality connected a proceedings ground successful Currency Nagar connected Wednesday (March 4).
In a property statement, VMC Commissioner Dhyanachandra H.M. said the instrumentality was recovered to beryllium effectual successful curbing the menace during a reappraisal of its performance. The instrumentality volition soon beryllium installed astatine cardinal locations wrong VMC limits wherever mosquito density is high, helium added.
Further, the corp is besides readying to usage different device, ‘spot mosquito sensor trapper’, done which accusation astir mosquitoes, specified arsenic whether they are antheral oregon female, whether they breed successful stagnant/dirty h2o oregon cleanable h2o and if a circumstantial taxon is involved, tin beryllium obtained. This accusation volition assistance forestall mosquito-borne diseases specified arsenic dengue, malaria, chikungunya and filaria, the Commissioner said.
He added that aft installing the machines, their show volition beryllium monitored done a centralised dashboard, which volition supply real-time information connected the fig of antheral and pistillate mosquitoes, the fig of dengue-causing mosquitoes, and their nonstop locations. Based connected this data, targeted spraying operations volition beryllium carried retired utilizing drones to destruct mosquitoes and forestall wellness issues among citizens, the Commissioner said.
Chief Medical Officer of Health K. Arjuna Rao, Assistant Medical Health Officer Gopala Naik, Biologist V. Kameswara Rao and different unit members participated successful the inspection of the instrumentality astatine Currency Nagar.
