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Residents person complained about glitches successful the favored licensing strategy of the Greater Chennai Corporation. The civic assemblage has acceptable a deadline of November 23 for obtaining a licence for dogs and cats. Chennai Corporation Council precocious passed a solution to cod a good of ₹5,000 from favored owners who failed to get a licence. Starting November 24, the civic assemblage volition statesman sending teams to households to cod fines from residents who failed to get a licence for dogs and cats.
Federation of OMR Residents’ Association’s (FOMRRA) Human-Animal Conflict Group said galore residents who person already obtained favored licences were incapable to log in. FOMRRA flagged the contented connected X, claiming that enactment was not disposable for users. FOMRRA co-founder Harsha Koda said: “The determination to marque favored licensing compulsory is welcome, but the rollout leaves overmuch to beryllium desired.”
Pointing to issues reported by residents connected societal media, helium said: “The GCC portal is plagued with method issues that hinder compliance. In particular, login, renewal, and adding caller licenses are problem-ridden: the strategy refuses the PIN it helped users acceptable up past twelvemonth and demands a password instead.”
The ‘forgot password’ enactment is ineffective, producing lone an mistake message. There are nary accessible options for assistance oregon troubleshooting, leaving users without enactment to resoluteness these issues, helium said.
“The contented is precise simple. The usage of exertion to way favored animals is simply a large idea. But the impervious of the pudding is successful baking it right. If they can’t marque the website work, oregon marque beingness harder for radical who complied past clip around... past they person to marque definite they don’t enforce immoderate deadlines connected citizens. Also with much than 50% of OMR coming extracurricular metropolis limits the citizens of thousands of apartments are wondering however to registry non GCC pets. The panchayats successful these areas person nary clue,” helium said.
Ward 88 councillor G.V. Nagavalli said residents person requested the civic assemblage to stock reliable accusation astir obtaining favored licence done artillery operated vehicles that sojourn each neighbourhood.
Federation of Thoraipakkam Residents Welfare Associations president A. Francis said caller registration of favored animals was not an contented and helium was capable to transportation retired a caller registration of his favored online. “There is nary clarity. Residents privation amended clarity arsenic the deadline has been set,” helium said.
Animal payment activistic Jayanth Prakash said determination was deficiency of consciousness among the radical and determination were immoderate method difficulties registering their pets online. “GCC indispensable supply favored ambulance oregon proscription facilities for the favored owners who are incapable to usage a nationalist transportation. GCC indispensable archetypal supply portion omniscient consciousness to nationalist astir the value of registering their pets and explicate the request and benefits. There are galore amerciable boarding structure crossed the metropolis for dogs and cats and GCC indispensable archetypal enforce a good connected the individuals who tally these amerciable shelters and unopen them down first,” helium said. “In Tamil Nadu rabies deaths were 43 during 2024 and 25 deaths till September 2025. These are lone registered cases. There could beryllium galore unregistered cases. I deliberation GCC indispensable archetypal ascertain the effectiveness of anti rabies vaccination done successful the city. Recently, a 47-year-old antheral died of rabies successful Chennai contempt administering a afloat rabies vaccination course. Many ARV vaccinated dogs successful Chennai metropolis person died of rabies which questions the efficacy of these vaccines and however they are stored. So having these galore problems, imposing fines connected favored owners who person not registered and microchipped their pets is not a priority,” he said.
Chennai Corporation officials said astir of the canine owners person not obtained a favored licence and the civic assemblage volition instrumentality measures to expedite the process of favored licensing for amended regulation.
