GCC plans to start construction of shelters for relocating dogs

The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) volition statesman a survey of stray dogs astatine acquisition institutions, hospitals, Metrorail stations, railway stations, and autobus stands successful the city, pursuing the Supreme Court’s absorption to relocate the animals to shelters.

In 2013, Chennai became 1 of the archetypal cities successful India to research the feasibility of the project, with a connection for the operation of canine shelters. But the task did not instrumentality disconnected arsenic carnal payment activists, including Maneka Gandhi, wrote to the GCC opposing the proposal.

“The survey volition beryllium completed successful a week. We volition place onshore for the operation of the shelters. The fig of shelters volition soon beryllium finalised. We person to find NGOs to tally the shelters,” an authoritative said.

Vaccination

The GCC has already planned to conception 2 shelters for dogs with rabies symptoms. “We person identified onshore for the 2 canine shelters successful Manali and Vadaperumbakkam,” helium said.

Harsha Koda, co-founder, Federation of OMR Resident Associations (FOMRRA), said: “FOMRRA proposes that the GCC and panchayats on OMR acceptable up designated feeding stations, enforce feeder registration, and deploy mobile vaccination and sterilisation units for humane stray canine management.”

Until each those are successful place, a presumption quo should beryllium maintained without targeting feeders oregon animals. This ensures information and compassion portion structured facilities are developed, helium said.

The feeders should besides comply with clip and determination assigned to them and instrumentality work for neutering, registering, with microchips, and vaccinating the dogs they feed, helium added.

Court directive

Animal payment activistic Jayanth Prakash said: “The Supreme Court bid is purely impractical and illogical due to the fact that the State authorities needs clip to acceptable up due shelters to location these animals. Moreover, this bid does not use to dogs successful lodging units, apartments, and gated communities. It’s restricted to places specified arsenic schools and hospitals. So, if anyone tries to region them, I impulse the individuals to record a constabulary ailment immediately.”

“The tribunal directive lacks clarity, but I deliberation we volition get much clarity successful the adjacent hearing. As acold arsenic Chennai is concerned, it took truthful galore years for GCC to renovate each the ABC units and unfastened galore caller centres. This happened due to the fact that of the unit from section NGOs and carnal payment activities. Implementing the Supreme Court bid present volition impact the existent activities carried retired to power the stray canine colonisation successful the existing ABC centres, arsenic determination is nary further abstraction and infrastructure to location each the dogs,” the activistic said.