Over 45,000 houses in Thiruvananthapuram join fight against mosquitoes
The Hindu
Dry-day challenge to control vector-borne diseases
The Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation’s dry day challenge on Sunday, as part of initiatives to control vector-borne diseases, has garnered an unexpected response with photos of mosquito-source destruction activities from more than 45,000 households getting uploaded in the Smart Trivandrum mobile application in a single day. Buoyed by the positive response, the civic body decided to extend the challenge to one more day. Unlike the dry day observances in the past, during which health officials from the ward-level provided data on the number of households in which the activities were carried out, the Corporation decided this year to make the people themselves mark themselves as being part of it. As part of this, city residents were asked to upload the photographs of destruction of mosquito sources from their households, with a geo-tagging system to get accurate location-wise data.More Related News