{"id":450374,"date":"2021-11-18T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T03:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450374"},"modified":"2021-11-18T10:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T04:58:54","slug":"civic-body-in-delhi-deploys-drone-to-spray-larvicide-to-combat-dengue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/civic-body-in-delhi-deploys-drone-to-spray-larvicide-to-combat-dengue\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic body in Delhi deploys drone to spray larvicide to combat dengue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a first-of-its-kind initiative, a drone was on Wednesday used by vector-control team of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to spray larvicide to check the spread of dengue in the city, cases of which have seen a record spike here.<\/p>\n<p>East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal claimed that the EDMC was the &#8220;first civic body&#8221; in the national capital to deploy a drone for control of vector-borne disease. <\/p>\n<p>Larvicide was sprayed on the banks of river Yamuna using a drone, which can carry a container with a capacity of 10-12 litre, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have hired an agency for it as a pilot project, and if the response is good, we will deploy more drones fir vector-control. One drone can cover about 3 km range,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first-of-its-kind initiative, a drone was on Wednesday used by vector-control team of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to spray larvicide to check the spread of dengue in the city, cases of which have seen a record spike here. East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal claimed that the EDMC was the &#8220;first civic body&#8221; in the national capital to deploy a drone for control of vector-borne disease. Larvicide was sprayed on the banks of river Yamuna using a drone, which can carry a container with a capacity of 10-12 litre, he said. &#8220;We have hired an agency for it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}