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The territory administrations of Mandya and Kodagu held abstracted meetings connected Tuesday to sermon measures to power the menace of stray dogs successful their respective districts successful the airy of the Supreme Court’s caller directions.
In Mandya, Deputy Commissioner Kumar directed the municipality section bodies to instrumentality up Animal Birth Control (ABC) and anti-rabies vaccination programmes effectively.
All indispensable measures should beryllium taken to curb stray dogs portion ensuring carnal payment and the information of citizens, helium said and emphasised the request for postulation of accusation connected stray dogs successful schools and colleges, hospitals, authorities offices, railway stations, and playgrounds.
He besides directed the officials to place suitable locations for sterilisation surgeries. Also, due measures should beryllium taken to negociate shelters for stray dogs successful collaboration with carnal payment organisations and the Department of Animal Husbandry.
The guidelines of the Supreme Court indispensable beryllium strictly followed successful the absorption of stray dogs and the sterilisation operations, helium said.
Citing the Supreme Court orders, Mr. Kumar said stray dogs should beryllium removed from high-risk areas similar acquisition institutions, autobus stands, railway stations, and hospitals. He issued directions for circular the timepiece information successful stadiums to forestall stray dogs from the entering the premises.
Students should beryllium made alert of rabies portion escaped anti-rabies vaccination programme should beryllium taken up for stray and favored dogs, helium said.
He directed the officials to acceptable up a helpline to person complaints regarding stray canine issues, and a nodal serviceman indispensable beryllium appointed astatine the territory level to instrumentality indispensable action.
In Kodagu, Deputy Commissioner Venkat Raja said the section bodies similar metropolis municipal councils, municipality municipal councils, municipality panchayats, and gram panchayats should earmark astatine slightest 1 acre of onshore wrong their jurisdiction and conception a compound partition to facilitate the relocation of stray dogs.
He said measures should beryllium taken to relocate the stray dogs and guarantee their due extortion portion appointing nodal officers to behaviour regular inspections to show the power of stray dogs.
He said the authorities and backstage hospitals should support capable banal of anti-rabies vaccines truthful that timely attraction is provided to dog-bite victims.
“Whenever cases of canine bites oregon attacks by animals are reported, the section assemblage officials indispensable beryllium informed and the authorities and backstage hospitals should guarantee timely exigency aesculapian services and archetypal aid,” helium said.
While Madikeri metropolis municipal assembly Commissioner H.R. Ramesh informed the gathering that 1 and a fractional acre of onshore connected the outskirts of Madikeri has been earmarked for locating stray dogs, the Deputy Commissioner instructed officials acrophobic that onshore beryllium similiarly earmarked adjacent successful Somwarpet, Kushalnagar, Ponnampet, and Gonikoppal limits.
Kodagu District Health and Famil Welfare Officer Satish Kumar said that 4,872 cases of canine bites were reported successful the territory successful 2024 and 4,217 cases betwixt January to October successful 2025.
