HYDERABAD: A war against mosquitoes has been launched in the State, but several colonies of Serilingampally appear to have been left out of its ambit. Just a few kilometres from the heart of Hitec City, these inhabitations languish in civic apathy.

There is no semblance of any activity under Operation Dengue here including the colonies of Gowlidoddi, Nanakramguda, Kalyannagar and Gopanpally ever since Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy launched the programme from the old city about a fortnight back.

Residents point out that since the launch of Operation Dengue, none of the municipal or health officials made attempts to clean up the garbage piling up here and treat stagnant water.

Local clinics in Gowlidoddi area continue to receive large number of patients with malaria and high fever.

Kalyannagar colony, located next to Durgam Cheruvu, is littered with garbage and locals point out that stagnant water here was never treated with disinfectants to curb mosquito breeding.

Official inaction

"The backwaters of Durgam Cheruvu and the drain water get mixed up and the concoction offers a congenial environment for mosquitoes to multiply. I have not seen any municipal officials in action here in the last one month or so," rues resident of the colony Md. Rauf.

The situation is no different in Nanakramguda where construction labourers have set up a series of settlements. Overflowing garbage bins and mosquito breeding in stagnant drains and cesspools are common here.

"The cleaning staff come here once in a week and the garbage gets piled up between their visits," said V. Ramesh, a resident of Nanakramguda near Joyce Mayor's Church.

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