‘NO RELIEF FROM DOG MENACE’

JAIPUR: The stray dog menace in the city continues even after Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) claims that it was carrying out the animal birth control drive on a regular basis.

The birth control treatment has been going on as per the Supreme Court guidelines in 2001 according to which the animal birth control is the only effective way to curb the stray dog population and killing the animal is prohibited. All the municipal bodies are to abide by the guidelines of the court.

Presently the Jaipur municipal corporation pays Rs 865 for sterilizing a single stray dog in Jaipur as per a contract made to Humane Welfare Society, and NGO in July 2018. The total estimated population of stray dogs in the city presently has been estimate to nearly 30,000. Presently the authorities claims to have been carrying of the birth control process which includes operation and vaccination for nearly 30 dogs per day. The NGO take care of the transportation, operation, food and vaccination of each dog in Rs. 865 that is provided for each dog.

Bhomaram Saini, Deputy commissioner, animal husbandry, JMC said that presently the animal cannot be killed or even relocated to a different site as per the court guidelines.

The residents of the city complain of the menace caused by the stray dogs and even report new births of puppies in their locality. “My eight-year-old son had been bit twice by the stray dogs in the locality,” said Kavita Sharma, a resident of Bani Park.

The officials say that the dogs are properly vaccinated before leaving them from the place they were picked up from.

HTC