Dikhyaa Mohanty 
City Mayor Sulochana Das and Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Vijay Kulange today launched the campaign Dry-Day Bhubaneswar with a padayatra in multiple wards along with citizens and local corporators.
According to the official reports, the campaign started creating awareness by demonstrating how to destroy the breeding source of mosquitos. Mayor Sulochana Das said “As the city witnesses the first touch of monsoon, the city becomes more vulnerable in terms of spreading of Dengue. BMC has been doing its bit and the citizens should come forward and join hands to get rid of the possible dengue menace. The idea of observing Dry-day is to ensure household level cleanliness drive to clear all unused water containments. We urge the citizens and institutions to extensively search their premises and disrupt mosquito breeding sources.”
August is the month traditionally for dengue outbreaks in the city and we have started months earlier this campaign to inculcate a regular practice amongst citizens to prevent dengue. Vijay Kulange, Commissioner, BMC stated that the unwanted containment of stagnant water for more than 7-10 days causes the breeding of mosquitos. Hence, this campaign on Sunday and Thursday is designed to bring a behavior change in each household to take care of their own house and surroundings.
The campaign has been started today in Magala Slum of unit 9 area under South East Zone. Today’s campaign has covered about 2000 households with more than 60 source reductions. The campaign will involve different social groups to create a human chain effect of the initiative as planned by BMC.
