Kurunegala PS battling dengue

Stanley SENVEIRATNE,Kurunegala North Group Corr

The Kurunegala Pradeshiya Sabha launched a massive Shramadana project on dengue eradication and destroying of mosquito breeding places, covering 121 Grama Niladhari Divisions of the PS. The campaign commenced from the Malpitiya town.

This project will educate the people by distributing handbills, organizing workshops and seminars on environment protection and keeping the environment clean and destroying mosquito breeding places in those areas.

PS Chairman Patrick Karunasinghe said it is the duty of local authorities to extend their fullest cooperation towards the ongoing national dengue eradication campaign launched by the Health Ministry.

In accordance the Kurunegala PS with about 10,000 people's participation with the PHIs, Community Development and Environment Protection Officials take part in this massive project.

The Chairman also observed that before the Central Environment Authority was set up the main statutory authorities which looked after the environmental aspects of community life at local level were Municipal Councils, Urban Councils and Village Councils.

There was no need to pay special attention to "environment" as such.