HYDERABAD: Vexed with irregular fogging by the Secunderabad Cantonment Board, residents have taken up the activity on their own to get rid of mosquitoes.
Residents of AP Text Book Colony in Ward-3 were worried about the health risk of over hundred families residing there.
The residents bought a hand-held fogging machine spending Rs 35,000 from monthly maintenance charges. They spend Rs 2,000 to Rs 4,000 every month to buy special fluid.
Colony association general secretary Hemanth Sharma said mosquito menace had turned so serious that residents could not open their windows or doors after the sunset and could not go out for a walk in open spaces.
“Fogging is not being done regularly by Cantonment staff. We waited for a few months and decided to buy one machine on our own. The watchman and the gardener operate the machine and do fogging once or twice a week,” he said. It was a last resort for them as health of families could not be compromised, he added.
Ward-1 member J. Maheshwar Reddy said Cantonment Board had two big vehicles mounted with fogging machines and one hand-held machine for each ward. One of the vehicles was under repair and they had to cater to eight wards.
Hand-held machines, however, were making rounds in each colony, he claimed.
“In my division, there are 21 colonies and nine bastis. I gave a time-table of fogging schedule to each colony and basti. On a particular day of a week, fogging will be done and colony association members have to sign in a book maintained by the staff,” he said.
