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Stray dogs to be sterilised

Staff Reporter

TIRUNELVELI: With the stray dog population increasing menacingly within the city limits, the Corporation has proposed to conduct sterilisation programme to control the dogs wandering on the streets.

Since the Corporation area houses 3,614 stray male dogs, posing grave threat to the public, particularly children, it will have to spend Rs. 16.08 lakh for sterilizing these dogs.

Apart from sterilising the dogs, the local body should administer anti-rabies vaccine to the animals besides taking care of them for a couple of days after the surgery.

Expenditure

The Commissioner for Municipal Administration (CMA), while asking the civic body to complete the ‘population control’ exercise within six months, directed the corporation to get back the expenditure from the Animal Welfare Board.

However, the AWB told the corporation administration that it could bear only 50 per cent of the expenditure incurred in the proposed sterilization exercise “since controlling dog population through sterilisation is the responsibility of the local body”. Moreover, the CMA also instructed that the civic bodies should carryout the exercise and collect 50 per cent of the total expenditure from the AWB.

Following this, the Tirunelveli Corporation, in association with AWB, has decided to conduct sterilisation of stray dogs and vaccinating them with anti-rabies vaccine

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