Illustration/Uday Mohite

Since January this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been a buzzkill for all the right reasons. According to data from the civic body's Insecticide Department, it has inspected 58.50 lakh homes to check breeding spots for mosquitoes causing dengue and malaria and destroyed about 8,000 such spots across the city till the first week of July. It hasn't stopped at inspection alone, collecting Rs 20 lakh in fines from citizens and housing societies charged in mosquito breeding cases.