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Keywords— colonial experience, identity, imagined community, nation, political

INTRODUCTION

Studies on the rise and emergence of nations for innumerable reasons or excuses, with vested interests or otherwise, for convenience and inconvenience, for the self and the ‘other’ have invariably shrouded the already indefinable concept of ‘nation’. While an ordinary individual today may attach the words ‘patriotism’, ‘government’, ‘belong’, ‘culture’, ‘people’, ‘language’, and ‘religion’ to the word ‘nation’, it is worthwhile to note that the concept of nation has been arrived at, imagined, debated, assembled, disassembled and reassembled by different kinds of people- philosophers, men of religion, men of letters, colonialists, reformers, scientists, sociologists, social anthropologists, political scientists, businessmen, cartographers, politicians, the rich, the poor, the young, the old, and so on.

In ever so many ways, nations, since ages, have been marked, constructed, imagined, defined, represented, legitimized, fought for, broken and forged. The hegemonic manifestations almost always present make the reception and response from the receiving end an enormous corpus to be digested and thought over. 

Objective: To determine the larvicidal larvicide activity of four insecticides against different strains of two dengue vectors- Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus of Bengaluru. The study thus aims to determine the variation difference of resistance/susceptibility levels in Aedes mosquitoes collected from different localities of Bengaluru Bangalore against four insecticides viz. chlorpyrifos, temephos, cypermethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin.

Methods: Eighteen strains of Ae. aegypti and three strains of Ae. albopictus were collected from different parts of Bengaluru Bangalore. They were maintained and reared in the laboratory for a few generations. Susceptibility studies were carried out on freshly collected third instar larvae according to the standard procedure of World Health Organisation (WHO).

Results:  Ae. aegypti is tolerant to WHO- recommended diagnostic dose of temephos. A moderate level of tolerance was found in HSR strain of Ae. aegypti to lambda-cyhalothrin (RR90=****). Ae. aegypti proves to be more tolerant than to  Ae. albopictus, to all the larvicides tested. The synthetic pyrethroids used - cypermethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin were more effective in their larvicidal activity than organophosphates studied - chlorpyrifos and temephos.

Conclusion: The present findings form the baseline data on the susceptibility status of two arboviral vectors to different larvicides. This study would help in better vector control measures and effective source management in Bengaluru.

Keywords: dengue prevention, insecticides, mosquito, resistance, vector control

Criterion *** – Innovative and Best Practices

In the ever-growing world, Innovative and Best Practices are not just options, but compulsions to meet the new yardsticks.  In the modern scenario, a college must adopt such concepts as value addition to conventional courses, inclusive planning and social and national development, intervention strategies aimed at gender equity and sensitization, good citizenship, social justice through various evolved and adopted practices. The following Innovative practices are in use--

Innovation in technology and media like ICT enabled teaching-learning, Wi-Fi enabled campus, CCTV, Public address system, Media centre etc.,

Innovations and Best Practices in the Curricular Aspects like Orientation programmes for Staff and students, Student seminars, Department-wise Bulletins, Wall magazines, Museum - Heritage Club, Model competition, workshops on Research methodology, literary competitions, personality development training, Student mentoring etc.