Cuttack, July 14: The civic body today set up a control room at Jagatpur to supervise dengue management activities.

The Cuttack Municipal Corporation has intensified the sanitation drive and spraying of larvicide at Jagatpur.

Of the total 123 dengue cases reported from Cuttack city, some 103 cases have been reported from Jagatpur alone, which falls in ward No. 49 of CMC. Earlier, a team of health department found larvae of aedes aegypti mosquitoes from some 30 sites at Jagatpur.

"We want to destroy the breeding sites of the aedes aegypti mosquitoes on the premises of various industrial units at Jagatpur. We have divided the entire area into three zones for better management of the drive," said municipal commissioner Gyana Das.

However, staff crunch has reportedly come in the way of successful implementation of the drive. Sources said the civic body was planning to outsource manpower to intensify the operations.

Das said more than 100 sanitary staff were engaged today to carry out an intensive sanitation drive at Jagatpur.

Three excavators and two suction machines were deployed to remove unused articles and clear accumulated water at various places.

However, the civic body and district administration are facing problems in carrying out the drive inside industrial houses at Jagatpur that have remain locked for the past few years. The district administration today issued notice to an industrial unit for accumulation of water on its campus.

In another development, Union minister of state for health and family welfare Faggan Singh Kulaste will arrive here tomorrow to take stock of the dengue situation.