‘Haul up builders for the city’s mosquito menace’

Builders are playing with citizens’ lives.

They are not able to keep the city mosquito free, so the civic body has to do the job, a section of corporators said at the standing committee meet recently.

Ahsish Shelar, BJP group leader, demanded that the civic body publish a white paper as malaria patients were increasing near construction sites.

Byculla, Elphistone, Parel, Marol and Chandivli have been identified as the most risk-prone areas for the disease caused by a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes due to heavy construction activity.

"It is the builder’s duty to control mosquito breeding, but they have failed,” he said.