MOSQUITO TERMINATOR TRAIN RUNS IN DELHI AREA FROM 18.09.2015

16-09-2015

MOSQUITO TERMINATOR TRAIN RUNS IN DELHI AREA FROM 18.09.2015

In keeping with the annual programme, Northern Railway and Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD)jointly flagged off the ‘Mosquito Terminator’ Special Train to check mosquito breeding in the water bodies along the railway track in Delhi area.

This Special train shall be flagged off from platform No.1 of New Delhi station by Sh.Arun Arora, Divisional Railway Manager and Dr. Puneet Kumar Goel,Commissioner, M.C.D. o­n 18.09.2015.

The Special train is envisaged to mitigate the health hazards of breeding of mosquitoes in the burrow pits alongside construction sites of rail tracks and as a measure to cater to public health more importantly for the health safety of  officials/ people residing at places adjoining railway tracks. 

A truck mounted power sprayer provided by M.C.D. is loaded as a Special kind of wagon ‘DBKM’ which has a low flat surface to mount any truck or vehicle.  This Special train will spray insecticides to sanitize the water bodies’ upto a distance of 50-60 meters along the tracks of Delhi Ring Railway via Hazrat Nizamuddin, Lajpat Nagar, Sewa Nagar, Lodhi Colony, Delhi Safdarjung, Patel Nagar, Delhi Kishanganj, Dayabasti and culminate at New Delhi o­n the first day, i.e. o­n 18.09.2015 and will cover other areas of NCR region in subsequent days upto 10.10.15 as shown below. There will be two rounds of spraying each week to cover the peak mosquito breeding season.

Northern Railway is committed to this public health initiative of running ‘Mosquito Terminator train’ Special train, which necessitates meeting challenges of halting important Express and Superfast trains o­n this high rail traffic areas besides ensuring that the Over Dimensional Load of this special train does not infringe safety in any manner. 

Schedule  for  Spray  through  DBKM        

S.No.	Date of spray	Time		Area covered for anti larval measures in water bodies along with railway tracks
		Truck will be mounted	Train will be started
1.	18.9.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi-Hazrat Nizamuddin-Lajpat Nagar-Sewanagar-Lodhi Colony-Delhi Safdarjung-Patel Nagar-Delhi Kishanganj- Dayabasti-New Delhi
	19.9.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi to Dayabasti-Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Patel Nagar- Delhi Cantt.- Palam-Gurgaon-New Delhi
2.	25.9.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi to Rathdana via Adarsh Nagar Delhi and Badli and return to New Delhi via Ashok Nagar/ Lawrence Road.
	26.9.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi to Delhi Jn. – Delhi Shahdara via Tilak Bridge to New Delhi
3.	02.10.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi-Hazrat Nizamuddin-Lajpat Nagar-Sewanagar-Lodhi Colony-Delhi Safdarjung-Patel Nagar-Delhi Kishanganj- Dayabasti-New Delhi
	03.10.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi to Dayabasti-Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Patel Nagar- Delhi Cantt.- Palam-Gurgaon-New Delhi.
4.	09.10.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi to Rathdhana via Adarsh Nagar Delhi and Badli and return to New Delhi via Ashok Vihar/Lawrence Road.
	10.10.2015	05.00 hrs	09.00 hrs.	New Delhi - Delhi - Delhi Shahdara- - New Delhi via Tilakbridge

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