Malappuram: The Kerala government has a problem at hand. Rats have beaten the government agency tasked with keeping public offices and ministers' residences pest-free.
The Kerala Warehousing Corporation has decided to seek private partners to hunt down the rodents in the official residences of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his cabinet colleagues.
The corporation managers felt that things were getting out of hand after the agency was assigned the management of more government institutions. The corporation has invited tenders from interested parties and the scheme will be implemented subject to the board’s approval, chairman Vazhoor Soman said.
The corporation has developed its own pesticide to do away with rodents. The corporation staff go after the pests in its own warehouses on a daily basis. They are also in charge of sanitizing the Kerala Legislative Assembly building, ministerial residences, government medical colleges and other institutions.
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