1 PIX 1: Mosquito Research Laboratory at Vector Control Department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation on 149 AJC Bose Road in Kolkata-700014. This is a first-of-its kind laboratory in eastern India. In Kolkata, a new era of vector control activities has ushered in following the establishment of this Research and Development wing in KMC.
2 PIX 2: One of the 5 KMC-run Dengue Detection Centres. Free facilities for detection of dengue (both NS1 antigen and IgM antibody) are available at all the DDCs of KMC.
3 PIX 3: Speedboat-generated waves proved highly detrimental to mosquito breeding in a historic study done the Vector control Department during November 2010 to April 2012. This experiment has fetched GLOBAL RECOGNITION for Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
4 PIX 4: Spraying larvicide in a polluted, mosquitogenic canal. Use of rowing boats makes it possible to spray canal edges where the banks are inaccessible to spraymen. The Health Department of KMC has been doing such larvicidal spray since March 2011.
5 PIX 5: A Central Rapid Action Team (CRAT, in short) for vector surveillance. The idea of forming such team was conceived by the Hon ble Member of the Mayor-in-Council (Health and Engineering) of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Shri Atin Ghosh. There are 6 CRATs in the department.
6 PIX 6: A Borough Rapid Action Team (BRAT, in short) together with a Borough Vector Control Incharge. There are 15 BRATs in the Health Department of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, one BRAT at each borough.
7 PIX 7: Hon ble Member of the Mayor-in-Council (Health & Engineering) of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Shri Atin Ghosh, Chairperson of Borough V, Smt Aparajita Dasgupta, a Rapid Action Team and other officials of KMC, during an antimosquito drive in the campus of Presidency University during 2013.
8 PIX 8: Release of the 9048-page Data Bank on Potential Mosquito Breeding Sources by the Hon ble city Mayor, Shri Sovan Chatterjee, and Hon ble Member of the Mayor-in-Council (Health and Engineering), Shri Atin Ghosh, on 17 July 2014 at 3 pm in the Conference Room No. 1 of KMC
PIX 9: Multilingual leaflet containing Do s and Don ts for prevention of malaria. 9
10 PIX 10: Multilingual leaflet for dissemination of antidengue messages. 11
PIX 11: Booklet for schoolchildren in four different languages Bengali, English, Hindi and Urdu was brought by the Health Department in March 2011. As many as 3 lakh 25 thousand copies of this booklet were distributed among the students of 701 schools of the city. 12
PIX 12: Do s and Don ts for prevention of malaria and dengue were intimated to people through this banner. In 2012, 40 banners per ward were put up. In 2013, as many as 15,000 such banners were put up across the KMC area. 13
PIX 13: For the first time in the history of KMC, the Health Department put up as many as 780 such colourful hoardings around the city during 2013 to make people aware of malaria and dengue. 14
PIX 14: As in 2013, in 2014 too, 3 lakh copies of this booklet containing all relevant information about prevention of malaria and dengue will be provided to fellow citizens free of cost. 15
PIX 15: Publicity campaign against malaria and dengue through auto-miking. This campaign tack proved effective. 16
PIX 16: Inauguration of screening of a documentary film of 17-minute duration on prevention and control of malaria and dengue on 1 August 2013. Last year, this film was shown in public places around the city during August and September by using two publicity vans, each fitted with a mobile LED Digital Screen. The impact of such publicity was fabulous! 17
PIX 17: First- of-its-kind workshop for primary care physicians of Kolkata held on 13 January 2013 at Rabindra Sadan. Around 400 doctors joined the workshop.
18 PIX 18: Workshop on malaria and dengue for primary care physicians of the city on 18 January 2014 at Uttam Mancha. Dr. AC Dhariwal, Director of NVBDCP, Govt. of India, himself was present in the workshop as a resource person. He explained the national guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of mosquito-borne diseases, especially malaria and dengue, to the audience.
19 PIX 19: Workshop for Ward Councillors and Ward Medical Officers of KMC on 14 January 2013 at Swabhumi. National guidelines on vector control were explained to the audience by experts from the Directorate of NVBDCP, Govt. of India. 20
PIX 20: Workshop on mosquito-borne diseases for Ward Councillors and Ward MOs at Town Hall on 11 January 2014. 21
PIX 21: The risk of falciparum malaria and drug resistance in Kolkata is relatively lower than in the other places of the state of West Bengal, said the World Health Organization in an alert issued to travelers in March 2012. 22
PIX 22: Hon ble Member of the Mayor-in-Council (Health & Engineering), Shri Atin Ghosh, decoding the KMC s success route against malaria at a National Seminar on Malaria organised by the Directorate of NVBDCP, Govt. of India, at its hqs on 22 Sham Nath Marg in Delhi- 110054 on 28 June 2012. Sitting beside him are the higher officials of the directorate, including Dr. AC Dhariwal, Director of NVBDCP. Shri Ghosh was invited to the seminar by Dr. Dhariwal. No other MMIC (Health) of KMC had received such invitation before Shri Ghosh. 23
PIX 23: Paper on impact of speed-boat generated waves on the larval densities of Culex mosquito were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 24
PIX 24: In the past, Aedes aegypti, prime vector of dengue, used to procreate more indoors; now it does so outdoors. A study done by the Entomologists of KMC has revealed this. The findings of the study were published in the March 2014 issue of the USA-based Journal Current Urban Studies. 25
PIX 25: March 2011 issue of the Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, published by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi. That the city s principal malaria vector Anopheles stephensi prefers to breed more in rainwater containers than in chlorinated water containers was found out by a study done by the Entomologists of KMC. This study was published in the said journal. 26
PIX: In July and August 2013, messages against dengue and malaria were sent out by the department through electricity consumption bills issued by the CESC Limited.