MITHI, March 24: Expressing serious concern over the menace of mosquitoes, flies, tiny insects and poisonous reptiles with the onset of summer in the sand-blown region, the members of district council of Tharparkar have urged the government to take measures for fumigation under malaria control plan.

Talking to journalists Kirshan Lal Rathi and other members of the district council of Tharpar-kar deplored abrupt suspension of fumigation in the district.They alleged that though the health department had scores of employees for malaria control programme, which never bothered to carry out fumigation in the district causing an alarming increase in the population of flies, mosquito and other insects.—BoC