MC To Adopt Nasik Model for Stray Dogs

By 1 2 1 News Reporter

Chandigarh 24^th June:- The Municipal Corporation may outsource the work of the sterilization of stray dogs, if the report prepared by a team of the councillors is accepted by the general house.

Sources said that this report has been finalised and will be placed in the next meeting of the general house to be held on June 25. A nine-member team of councillors and officials, along with Mayor H C Kalyan had visited Nasik to study how that city has dealt with the stray dog menace. Highly impressed they have proposed that the same model be adopted in Chandigarh, said sources. Sources also said that the work of sterilisation of dogs in Nasik has been outsourced. Around 30 dogs are sterilised daily in this city.

Saurabh Joshi, one of the members of the team said that he has impressed upon the officials to place the report in the next meeting as this issue requires urgent attention. Sources said, that the issue was not earlier part of the agenda to be discussed in the meeting.  Joshi said that an NGO had been involved in sterilisation of dogs at Nasik and the infrastructure was being provided by the local municipal corporation.  The MC officers keep a 24-hour watch on the activities of the sterilisation process through CCTV cameras installed at the control rooms," added Joshi.  Specific areas are selected and the dogs from one area only are taken for sterilisation so that the entire area is covered and all the dogs are sterilised, he added.  The report says that the Nasik MC also run a 24-hour helpline on which anybody can complain about strays. Around 10 rooms were being used for sterilising dogs. CCTV cameras were installed in the rooms where sterilisations took place in order to keep an eye on the process. An incinerator is also installed at the garbage processing plant. The team was sent to Nashik after the MC failed to find a solution to the stray dog menace in the last general house meeting. Mayor HC Kalyan said that the team has studied the Nasik model in detail and was impressed by the arrangement for dealing with the situation. He said that any further action in this regard will be taken only after seeking the views of all the members concerned.