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The Guntur Municipal Corporation (GMC) has intensified efforts to power the rising stray canine population. GMC Commissioner K. Mayur Ashok connected Monday (March 23, 2026) directed officials to expedite Animal Birth Control (ABC) surgeries crossed the city.
The Commissioner told The Hindu that helium instructed veterinary teams and bureau representatives to standard up operations and taxable regular reports. Officials estimation that astir 30,000 stray dogs required sterilisation, and the existent capableness of 50–60 surgeries per time is being enhanced to 100 with improved infrastructure.
The civic assemblage has launched a focused thrust successful delicate areas. A caller ABC centre connected Ponnur Road has been made operational, with works entrusted to a backstage agency.
He said sterilisation and anti-rabies vaccination volition beryllium carried out, aft which the dogs volition beryllium released backmost into their archetypal locations arsenic per Supreme Court guidelines.
He besides informed that, the GMC didn't person the nonstop fig of the dogs successful the city, arsenic their colonisation keeps connected increasing. Hence, they beryllium connected the earlier census, which projects the dogs colonisation astir 28,000.
He further informed that the GMC has been readying to found dogs feeding places astatine each ward successful the city. The nationalist volition beryllium asked to provender the dogs astatine these designated places only.
