Vacant sites in residential areas are overrun by weeds and have turned breeding grounds for mosquitoes, dogs and cattle.
HUBBALLI: As the Covid-19 positivity rate dips below 1%, people are gradually engaging themselves with their routines as earlier. But now people are worried about the unhygienic conditions in the surroundings of their residences.
As cities receive rain, the vacant sites in most residential areas have become breeding places for mosquitoes, pigs, stray dogs and other pests.
Civic authorities are now concentrating round the clock on Covid-19 work, which has hampered the other major cleaning works including cleaning of vacant sites to prevent mosquito-borne diseases.
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HUBBALLI: Following heavy downpour in the twin cities, Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) is gearing up to handle flood-like situation and has put emergency teams on alert round the clock in all 12 zonal offices.
Having learnt from floods in the city two years ago in which severe damage was caused to several bridges and houses close to the nalas, the HDMC has already started desilting of Rajnalas in both Hubballi and Dharwad using two Hitachi provided by a company under CSR activities for 500 hours.
The officials have already identified 43 localities which were affected due to floods in the past and of these, 18 have been identified as highly vulnerable, sources in HDMC added. Officials have also identified community halls to shift people in case of emergency.
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