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: Dog owners person complained astir crowding and overcharging successful centres acceptable up by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) for microchipping, and person demanded an hold of the deadline for favored licensing.
Residents indispensable wage a good of ₹5000 if they neglect to get a licence earlier the deadline of November 24. The GCC permits residents to get a licence for their pets lone aft microchipping and vaccinating them.
There are astir 1 lakh favored dogs successful Chennai. Of these, astir 61,000 residents person registered their pets online. However, the GCC has issued lone 21,500 licences truthful far.
Anna Nagar West Thendral Colony nonmigratory B. Tamil Selvan said the GCC should widen the deadline to January. “It should behaviour camps successful areas specified arsenic Anna Nagar to supply escaped microchipping. Many residents cannot spend microchipping services astatine backstage clinics.”
Anju Parthasarathy, a nonmigratory of Korukkupet, said though she took permission from her assemblage to sojourn Puliyanthope session and microchip her pet, it took the full time to implicit the process. “The GCC indispensable instrumentality stringent measures to power the assemblage and name much unit members for favored registration, microchipping, and vaccination connected priority,” she said.
Animal payment activistic Jayanth Prakash said the GCC clinics were crowded and chaotic. “Many had to hold for implicit 5 hours, and determination were nary chairs to sit. Only 1 idiosyncratic took attraction of the registration process astatine the Pulianthope clinic. The pets growled astatine each different and it was hard to power them. Most of the individuals faced difficulties successful registering their pets online. They had to wage ₹50 for registration, and different ₹50 if it failed. Many paid much than ₹300 per registration. Because of this, respective favored owners were forced to sojourn backstage favored clinics, wherever they were charged a minimum of ₹2000 per pet.
He added that owners with implicit 3 pets were incapable to registry utilizing a azygous Aadhaar card, truthful this has created a batch of disorder among the favored owners. When the favored owners raised questions astir this, the GCC officials themselves had nary clarity. They were asked to taxable an alternate Aadhaar impervious successful a antithetic locality and bash the registration.
