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Residents successful Greater Chennai Corporation limits volition nary longer beryllium allowed to use for caller canine licences oregon renew existing ones for Pit Bull and Rottweiler breeds arsenic they are considered ferocious and aggressive, arsenic per a solution passed by the civic body’s Council connected Friday. They were besides asked to strictly travel the leashing and muzzling rules for each favored dogs portion successful public.
The Council besides approved caller modular operating procedures (SOPs) for handling stray dogs successful enactment with Supreme Court directions.
The prohibition connected caller favored licences and renewal of existing licences for the 2 canine breeds volition beryllium implemented from Saturday. Owners without favored licences volition person a punishment of ₹1 lakh, according to the GCC. Further, those with valid licences were directed to guarantee that the animals were decently leashed and muzzled erstwhile taken outside. A good of ₹5,000 volition beryllium imposed connected those who neglect to comply, the GCC said.
The Council besides approved caller SOPs for managing stray dogs, requiring the GCC to conception compound walls and gates connected the campuses of authorities and nationalist institutions wrong 8 weeks to forestall introduction of stray dogs. Officials indispensable inspect these areas astatine slightest erstwhile each 3 months to guarantee that nary dogs are present. If found, the dogs indispensable beryllium caught, sterilised, vaccinated, and handed implicit to shelters oregon volunteers.
Dogs caught from these spaces indispensable acquisition carnal commencement power (ABC) country and anti-rabies vaccination arsenic per the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, but indispensable not beryllium released backmost into the aforesaid campuses. Instead, they volition beryllium handed implicit to NGOs, canine shelters, oregon volunteers for imperishable shelter. The shelters are required to support due information of each dogs received, guarantee regular feeding and aesculapian care, and cooperate with inspections by GCC veterinary officers.
“Feeding outgo of ₹50 per canine per time volition beryllium provided by the Corporation, and for shelters maintaining 20 oregon much dogs, wages of ₹750 per idiosyncratic per time for 2 workers volition beryllium paid,” according to GCC.
Volunteers adopting rescued dogs without outgo indispensable motion a committedness enslaved assuring due maintenance, arsenic per the rules.
