Mysore/Mysuru, April 29 -- Deputy Commissioner (DC) G. Lakshmikanth Reddy has instructed the officers to keep an intensified check on drinking water supply, as the chances of epidemics is high, if the water gets contaminated. He was chairing the meeting of Health and Family Welfare Mission at the mini meeting hall of Zilla Panchayat in the city yesterday.

The officers should conduct a double check, by testing the samples of drinking water and authenticate whether the water is fit for consumption, he added.

Taking into count the number of cases booked under The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), he said, between 2025-26, a fine amount of Rs. 2,98,400 has been collected. With hookah totally prohibited, the officers should ...