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Drive against mosquitoes at Kumbalanghi

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, MARCH 8. Kumbalanghi, the first model tourism village in the country, is striving to become the first mosquito-free village, as part of the ongoing tourism drive.

The panchayat has asked 5,000 families in the village to keep water in the open from March 12 for mosquitoes to lay eggs.

The water will be poured out to dry land a week later, killing the larvae. This drive will continue till April 30.

One thousand families attended the awareness programme organised by the United Nations Development Project, which is partly funding the model tourism project.

Two awareness meetings each will be held at all wards from March 9 to 11 as a follow-up, said the Kumbalanghi Panchayat president, M.P. Sivadathan.

It was believed that breeding of mosquitoes could be brought down by 85 per cent if this system was practised for six months, he added.

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