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EWU initiates anti-mosquito drive on campus

City Desk :
In order to prevent the outbreak of dengue and the breeding of mosquitoes, East West University (EWU) conducted an “Anti-Mosquito and Larvae Destruction Drive” campaign on its campus at Aftabnagar in the capital on Wednesday.

Professor Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, Chief Adviser of EWU and the former governor of Bangladesh Bank, initiated the campaign by involving the community.
Faculty members and students of EWU organized a rally to raise awareness among the people around the university campus and demolish mosquito breeding grounds in those areas, reports UNB.
Professor Dr A K Enamul Haque, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, and Professor Dr M Ruhul Amin, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of EWU led the campaign.
Zahangir Alam, Local ward councilor of Dhaka North City Corporation, also joined this awareness campaign. The ward councilor said that if every educational institution takes such an initiative for the awareness of their students and cleanliness in their surroundings, then we will be able to deal with dengue very quickly.