Plea to take entomology staff off election duties

Update: 2019-09-04 00:43 IST

Abids: GHMC standing committee member and Abids corporator Mamatha Santhosh Gupta met GHMC Commissioner Lokesh Kumar and requested him not to deploy employees of entomology department in election-related works which are set to be commenced soon. GHMC workers would be deployed in election-related works such as voter ID verification, making corrections in voter list and receiving new applications.

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She explained to the Commissioner that deployment of entomology workers in other duties would affect the drive against spread of viral fevers and mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria. Responding positively to her suggestion, Lokesh Kumar assured that the employees of the entomology department would not be deployed in those works.

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