The health department is all set to ensure that civic offenders in the capital are put to task.
NEW DELHI: The health department is all set to ensure that civic offenders in the capital are put to task. Those not maintaining hygiene in and around their residential areas are being booked by the health department for cheating and creating mosquito breeding places around their residence.
For the first time ever, the health department has already dispatched around 1,766 legal notices to those who have failed to clean up their residential surroundings despite warnings from health inspectors on earlier checks.
In the past six months concluding June 30th, health officials have found over 29,700 defaulters, who have not maintained cleanliness around their residence. Hence, tough measures are necessary, as there is a need to bring down the health related problems from water borne diseases, emphasised health officials. While Delhi has not reported a single case of dengue so far, health officials indicate that June to September are the worst months for increasing water borne diseases in the capital.
Senior officials of the health department also emphasised that the remaining people have been asked to pay a fine since they had also failed to clean up their residences.
The Delhi government has adopted strict measures after several cases of people contracting water borne diseases were reported in 2006. Besides, many people from neighbouring cities also come to Delhi for the treatment of malaria, cholera and dengue.
Apart from Delhi citizens, some of the high profile offenders were institutions like the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital.
Health inspectors are also frequently doing rounds of students’ hostels in the Delhi University campus where the cleanliness standards have gone down after officials found water logging at several spots. Unhygienic juice vendors have come under the health department’s scanner. The health department has been distributing chlorine tablets to the people to clean their homes and offices.
v_gyan@dnaindia.net
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