MITHI, Aug 26: The residents of various towns and villages of Thar have urged the district administration and the health department to take prompt measures for fumigation to destroy mosquitoes, flies and other harmful insects.

The Nazim, Union Council Diplo, A. Warayo Bajir, and the Nazim, Union Council Islamkot, Haresh Kumar, while talking to this correspondent on the telephone the other day said that as no fumigation was carried out during the last couple of years, the towns as well as the villages of Thar had become a hub of mosquitoes and flies and it had led to an alarming increase in malaria cases besides exposing the people to unhygienic conditions.

The Nazim, Union Council Malanhore Veena, Ram Singh, said a casual visitor to his Union Council would not fail to witness that most of the villagers could not sleep at night as they were bitten by mosquitoes.

He said that non-spraying of insecticides, under the malaria programme, during the last two decades had resulted in an alarming increase in the population of harmful insects, apart from creating filthy conditions.

NOTICE TAKEN: Taking serious notice of the rise in malaria cases, the Nazim, Tharparkar district, Arbab Attaullah, has directed the executive district officer, health, to take prompt measures for spraying to stop the growth of mosquitoes and flies in the district.

A visit to various colonies of Mithi town, including Darzi, Naiee, Bajir, Maheshwari, Meghwar and Lohana, revealed that most of the drains had remained clogged since more than a month and had become breeding grounds for mosquitoes, flies and other insects.

The residents demanded that the municipal administration take remedial measures as soon as possible.