To address dog menace in the national Capital, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation will soon come up with four new sterilisation centres. With this step, the South Corporation will sterilise at least 100 dogs per day and will bridge the gap between sterilised and non-sterilised dogs.
Corporation officials said the centres are likely to be operational in next couple of days as necessary arrangements have been made. Additionally, the SDMC has also announced online registration of pet dogs in its area.
According to the MCD officials, the proposed centres will come up in Bijwasan, Mundela, Nangli and Masoodpur area and with starting operation total number of dog sterilisation centres will augment from existing nine to 13 in SDMC area.
“We have sterilised nearly 21,000 dogs from existing centres which was about over 70 per cent of total dogs sterilised in the Capital last year. With adding four more centres we will help in sterilising nearly 35,000 stray dogs. In addition to this, civic agency is also planning to open four new centres in Dwarka Sector-9 with sterilisation capacity of 200 per day.
The official maintained that the new centres will be based on lines on centres established in Mumbai, Baoddra, Tiruanantpuram, etc and will have latest equipments. A total of ten new dog vans will be purchased for transportation of dogs before and after sterilisation. The Corporation has also signed MoU with NGOs to count number of dogs whether sterilised or non-sterilised.
Apart from this, software is also being developed for online registration of pet dogs. “We have been working on the software so we could maintain online register of pet dogs. The move will not just help in counting pet dogs but will prove source of revenue generation of the SDMC,” the official added.
“As stray dogs’ number is increasing by leaps and bounds, the need of the hour is to control them. Following this four new stations are being constructed. The Corporation, in association of two NGOs,
has arranged all equipments to achieve the target,” said the official. For sterilisation
of dogs, this year the annual budgetary provisions have been increased from Rs 2 crore to Rs 10.40 crore.
“For better dog sterilisation, SDMC is purchasing dog vans for which budgetary provision increased from Rs 60 lakh to Rs 2.10 crore. We will come up with four sterilisation centres which will ensure that the gap between the number of dogs that are sterilised and not sterilised is reduced,” leader of the House, Ashish Sood said during the Budget speech.