Animal Birth Control Should Be More Scientific, Vigorous: Activist
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Visakhapatnam: The recent judgment by the Supreme Court on the street dog issue in Delhi, NCR and Gurgaon was due to the non-performance of government agencies in implementing the animal birth control rules, an animal rights group has said.
Founder president of the Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals, Pradeep Nath said the ABC rules have been laid down by the central government and the animal welfare board. The court, he said, should hold them responsible for the present adverse turn.
“No state government is following the rules strictly and the budget allocations for this purpose are going to waste,’’ he said.
He said the animal birth control programme for street dogs has come to the fore as killing has not helped the issue of rabies. The entire programme needs proper coordination between municipalities, the department of animal husbandry and local-level animal welfare organizations.
The street dog menace is also due the abandonment of pet owners and the mushrooming of illegal pet breeders, he said.
He said the judgment would be practical if an expert committee is tasked with finding out the best solution and the legal aspects thereof. Providing shelters to stray dogs would be a cumbersome exercise.
The public health department says it has been carrying out animal birth control programmes and that the number of stray dogs has been brought down significantly. “During the last two and half years, we have completed sterilization of 1,18,670 stray dogs out of the total dog population of 1,39,500 in the GVMC limits,’’ claimed its chief veterinary officer Dr. N Kishore.
To combat the risk of rabies and improve public health safety, the GVMC has administered 42,600 anti-rabies vaccinations, he said.
