August 9, 2010 7:49 PM

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Railway to run special train ‘Mosquito Terminator’

The Northern Railway and M.C.D. together have formulated an innovative streak to run a special train named ‘Mosquito Terminator’. It will check mosquito breeding in the water bodies along the Railway track in Delhi Area for the health safety of the rail passengers and the people living along the Railway tracks.A truck mounted power sprayer provided by M.C.D. is loaded on a special kind of wagon which has a low flat surface to mount any truck or vehicle, has been spraying larvicides in the water bodies since mid July 2010 and will continue to run every fortnight over a period of two days till Nov. 2010- the period of mosquito breeding. This special train by spraying the larvicides is sanitizing water bodies upto a distance of 50-60 meters along the tracks.

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