Noida: The health department of Gautam Budh Nagar has directed all gated communities, offices and hospitals to inspect their premises for presence of mosquitos and issue an undertaking stating they would take action to prevent mosquito breeding sites.The department on Friday fined around 20 offenders under the UP Prevention and Control of Malaria, Dengue, Kala Azar and any Vector-Borne Diseases Regulations, 2016 and directed them to paste a disclosure outside their gate stating they would soon comply with the rules. Cases will be lodged against buildings that fail to ensure a mosquito-free environment.“Builders, estate managers or those in charge of maintenance of institutes and commercial buildings will have to put up a notice to residents and employees, saying that if their premises have mosquito breeding sites, they would take necessary steps to prevent bites,” the district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar, BN Singh, said.A statement from the district malaria office said it was important that heads of these entities ensured their employees were sensitised about ways to protect themselves from mosquitoes.“They will ensure mosquito-breeding sites do not develop on the premises of the buildings. An undertaking to this affect should be submitted at the chief medical officer’s office and the same should be pasted on the gates of the buildings,” read the statement.District malaria officer Rajesh Sharma said all estate managers who had been fined for allowing mosquito-breeding sites to come up on their premises had been told to give a written undertaking that he or she had submitted the fine. Else, proceedings under IPC Section 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) will be initiated against the owner of the building.

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