LAHORE, Aug 17: Commissioner Jawad Rafique Malik on Friday ordered registration of a case against a motor vehicle repairing workshop owner in Gulshan-i-Ravi area for keeping old tyres, breeding dengue mosquito larva.

Accompanied by the local health department’s officials, the commissioner reached Gulshan-i-Ravi area and inspected a workshop there. He found a huge number of dengue larva growing in the water accumulated in dozens of used tyres lying there. He ordered the officials to confiscate all tyres and get a criminal case registered under dengue regulations against the workshop’s owner. He also got the workshop sealed by the officials.

Talking to people gathered on the occasion, Mr Malik said the used tyres, openly lying at various workplaces, were the main cause of breeding the dengue mosquito larva in the city. “The shopkeepers must ensure covering all such tyres so as to avoid breed/growth of dengue larva,” he warned. Earlier, the commissioner visited various tyre shops in Shalimar and Wahga towns. He also monitored the confiscated tyres cutting work at various stores and directed the officials to expedite the work by using big cutting machines.

CAMPAIGN: District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal has said that the CDGL’s senior officials concerned have launched an extensive anti-dengue campaign by inspecting the entire city’s graveyards and removing the water pots from there.

Presiding over a meeting here on Friday, Mr Mengal said he had given the task to the officials to make the city graveyards clean within next couple of days.