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Stray dogs: new areas may get birth control programme

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Three-year-old Prakash was attacked by dogs at Kodigehalli in Hebbal police station limits on Thursday. The child suffered minor injuries and was treated as an out-patient, according to doctors at K.C. General Hospital.

The incident raises the question of what the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) plans to do about controlling the number of street dogs in the city. When an eight-year-old girl was bitten to death by a pack of dogs some time ago at Chandra Layout in erstwhile Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) jurisdiction, officials and animal welfare organisations said dogs were entering BMP limits from the erstwhile city municipal council (CMC) areas. But other organisations, such as Stray Dog-Free Bangalore, insisted that it was the result of BMP's ineffectual Animal Birth Control programme.

Kodigehalli, where little Prakash was attacked, was under the Byatrayanapura CMC limits until the formation of BBMP. "This CMC did not have any dog control programme in place," Deputy Commissioner (Health) Manu Baligar told The Hindu on Friday.

Asked what the BBMP would do to curb dog menace in the erstwhile CMC areas, Mr. Baligar said that the BBMP was only "thinking of extending the birth control programme to the new areas." He said: "It will be on the same lines as the one in the BMP areas."

About the doubts raised over the effectiveness of the birth control programme, he said: "The programme is one of the best in the country. People who do not know about it are the ones who comment on it."

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