VECTOR CONTROL: JNAC officers and police officers seize water pipes during a ride through illegal vehicle wash centers along the Sakchi-Burmamines road near Garabasa in Jamshedpur on Saturday. Jamshedpur: Fighting dengue, the Jamshedpur Local Area Committee (JNAC) targeted Saturday illegal car wash centers, closing six of these centers along the Sakchi-Burmamines road near Garabasa and Tuiladungri.
JNAC's special officer Sanjay Kumar Pandey said the water from these illegal vehicle wash centers was accumulating in containers and drains by the roadside, which could spawn larvae of Aedes aegypti a species of freshwater mosquito responsible for dengue fever. Sanjay Kumar Pandey on Saturday ordered the police team to prosecute under Article 133 of the Code of Criminal Procedure against unauthorized cattle sheds dumped cow dung and dung. 39 other waste on drains or storing water in containers.
East Singhbhum reported 457 dengue cases in 2017, the highest in seven years. Two people, one from Kadma to Jamshedpur and another from Baguria in the Ghatshila subdivision, succumbed to the virus
This year, three cases of positive dengue fever have been reported so far, but the administration was in a state of alert to target potential mosquitoes. "We have received complaints about unauthorized vehicle washing facilities along the Sakchi-Burmamines road, and on Saturday we launched a crackdown and ripped out pipes from the taps used by the six washing centers," he said. he added.
"We will conduct similar raids in other areas where such washing centers operate and seize engines, hoses and other hydraulic equipment."
There are at least 20 washing centers in the JNAC command areas.
He added that similar crackdowns on unauthorized livestock sheds, led by a magistrate, would soon be put in place.
JNAC Anti-Fraud Teams o pick up abandoned vehicles thrown along roads and close to other public places.
"We will tow these abandoned vehicles to the JNAC office and impose a fine on its owners. If the owners do not show up at our office, we will go to auction vehicles after a while. "Dengue larvae breed in the rainy season inside these vehicles," said Pandey.
On Saturday, the JNAC control team visited 136 houses in the Shastrinagar region of Kadma to spray larvae and destroy them.