‘THEY HARASS CIVIC SQUAD’

▪ Chief veterinary officer, LMC, Dr Arvind Rao said, “If the municipal corporation has to catch dogs for sterilisation, they have to drop them back at the place from where they were picked up. Some animal rights activists keep harassing the civic squad whenever they go to catch dogs for sterilisation. The LMC has a poor experience of handing over sterilisation work to an NGO, which only minted money and gave no results.”

▪ He added, “When we are unable to control dog menace in Lucknow due to these NGOs that have mushroomed just for the sake of foreign grant, what will we do in Sitapur? There too, some NGOs will stop our drives.”

▪ These activists should let municipal authorities tackle the menace or it will keep on increasing, he emphasised.