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To debar conflicts betwixt canine lovers and residents who person carnal aversion, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has demarcated locations for feeding stray dogs and has said that nutrient should beryllium provided lone astatine these places.
The determination follows a caller Supreme Court absorption that stray dogs should not beryllium fed successful nationalist areas and indispensable beryllium fed lone successful designated zones. The apex tribunal besides directed civic bodies to make feeding areas for dogs successful municipal wards.
“With the nonsubjective of regulating the question of stray dogs and preventing inconvenience to the public, the GCC has identified circumstantial locations and acceptable up designated feeding centres crossed the city,” a senior official said, adding that 8 locations person been demarcated and opened for the nationalist to provender stray dogs.
The authoritative further said, “We person planned to acceptable up 2 designated feeding areas for stray dogs successful each zone. As of now, 8 specified places person been established aft consultations with residents’ payment associations and different stakeholders, including the police. We program to grow this to different areas wrong a week.”
The designated feeding areas person been demarcated successful Thiruvottiyur, Anna Nagar, Teynampet, Perungudi, Palavakkam and Ambattur.
Pavithra Rajasekaran, an carnal lover, said, “Common feeding areas often intensify dogs’ territorial instincts. They whitethorn combat oregon wound each other, particularly erstwhile dogs who are unfamiliar participate their territory. This tin summation aggression alternatively than trim conflict. Area-specific feeding spots are a safer alternative.”
G. Arun Prasanna, laminitis of People for Cattle successful India, urged the GCC to equip the designated spots with shade, h2o points, discarded disposal bins, and to enactment wide bilingual signage (Tamil and English) prohibiting feeding extracurricular these zones. He besides called connected the GCC to contented nationalist advisories done the Corporation’s website, ward-level WhatsApp groups, announcement boards and section media to amended residents connected the caller protocol and ineligible compliance.
