A close hard look

Malaria is easy to check. Just do not let mosquitoes breed. This is the essence of the bioenvironmental way to control such tiny big disease carriers. But the administration never took this strategy up seriously. Fifteen years of bureaucratic environmental control and health officials are still spraying chemicals. Clearly, the problem is not one of strategy. It is one of implementation. (Mis)management. Down To Earth takes a close hard look at case-studies