Residents hit by mosquito menace, stagnant rainwater
- | Wednesday | 22nd November, 2017
From some houses, drainage water flows into nearby houses. The residents protested but officials began work on containing mosquito menace for about three hours in some parts of the area and left. The women said that at least one in two houses had children with fever in the past two months, owing to mosquito menace. A senior citizen, she said, “My only asset is my house and it was ruined by the rainwater this year.”A majority of the women of Kannan Colony work at ‘appalam’ (papad) companies. A. Veni, a resident of Raghavendra Street, said that her house was filled with knee-deep rainwater.
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