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Humidity, lack of rain — reasons for glut of flies in Delhi

While the monsoons are indeed the season for flies to breed, this year, they are breeding in extremely large volumes

Updated on: Jul 15, 2024, 05:14:17 IST
By Jasjeev Gandhiok, Jayashree Nandi
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Last week, a key Union government body was set to launch a report at Sansad Marg in Lutyens Delhi, with several senior bureaucrats set to be present. Hours before the report was to be launched, the body concerned realised that the venue was swamped with flies, prompting the department to deploy an army of cleaners to the building concerned.

Houseflies on a strainer at a juice vendor on Sunday. (Arvind Yadav/HT)
Houseflies on a strainer at a juice vendor on Sunday. (Arvind Yadav/HT)

Upon reaching the venue, the cleaners first attempted to swat the flies away. When that didn’t help, they tried wiping surfaces.

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jasjeev Gandhiok

Jasjeev Gandhiok is an Assistant Editor with Hindustan Times, where he covers environment, climate change, the clean energy transition and wildlife at the National Bureau. Gandhiok has over a decade of experience in journalism and is based in Delhi. He has reported extensively on Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). This includes the region's air pollution woes, a polluted Yamuna and on urban wildlife still thriving in the region. He joined HT in October 2021. Prior to that, he had five-year stint at The Times of India in Delhi, where he also covered Delhi, with a focus on environment and wildlife. Gandhiok has covered some recent events around the Capital too, ranging from the farmers' protests, the northeast Delhi riots and the CAA-NRC protests, reporting from the ground on all of these. He also travels across the country to report on how environment and climate change impact everyday life, while also writing on endangered species. His reports in 2019 on toxic leachate from Delhi's landfills led to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) taking suo motu cognisance and ultimately asking the state government to start bio-mining to flatten and remove all three landfills in the capital. He also closely tracks the implementation of government policies on climate, renewable energy and environmental protection. His focus remains on impactful, public-interest journalism which explains how environmental decisions affect people's everyday lives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jayashree Nandi

I write on the environment and climate crisis and I believe these are the most important stories of our times.

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