The drum in the washroom was found to be the breeding ground for the mosquito

With all the dengue awareness programmes that the BMC invests in, you would think it looks into its own backyard. But, after the juvenile justice board's principal magistrate, Gauri Jadhav and her stenographer Deepali Sawant fell victim to the disease last week, a BMC inspection of their office washroom dispelled all myths. The source of the aedes breeding ground was a holding water drum.