After the families of babus living in the Mantralaya precinct were laid low by the mosquito-borne dengue and malaria viruses, 12 metro construction workers in the area, too, have now been diagnosed with malaria and dengue. The BMC health department on June 4 dashed off a letter to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRC) telling them to look into the matter immediately.

The letter also stated that BMC staffers were putting their lives at risk by trying to reach inaccessible areas in the Metro pits to drop pesticide in them.While the Mumbai metro celebrated five years of its service in the city on June 8, its expansion has now turned into a nightmare for some city-dwellers. The metro construction opposite Vidhan Bhavan in South Mumbai has led to its workers and locals in the area falling prey to vector-borne diseases. As many as 12 workers have been diagnosed with malaria and dengue in the last one month. Two of them are undergoing treatment at St George Hospital. While the insecticide branch of the BMC's health department has received around 30 mosquito-related complaints from the area, no solution has been found as the breeding grounds are inaccessible.