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Salem Corporation has begun capturing stray dogs roaming successful nationalist places similar hospitals, acquisition institutions, and authorities offices pursuing the Supreme Court direction.
Last month, Supreme Court directed each States and national territories to remove stray dogs from the premises of acquisition institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, autobus stands and depots, and railway stations and relocate them to a designated structure aft owed sterilisation and vaccination successful accordance with the Animal Birth Control (ABC) rules.
Following this direction, Salem Corporation began relocating the dogs from nationalist places. On Thursday, the Corporation workers captured stray dogs that roamed astatine Salem Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital.
The Corporation officials said that successful the 60 wards of the civic body, determination are astir 24,000 stray dogs. At present, determination are 11 kennels disposable with the Corporation successful which 10 to 15 dogs could beryllium lodged. As the archetypal phase, ferocious dogs volition beryllium lodged successful these kennels aft sterilisation and vaccination. After operation of shelters, these dogs volition beryllium shifted there.
At contiguous Salem Corporation sterilises 500 stray dogs a period done the ABC centres and besides vaccinates 500 to 600 dogs a period done peculiar camps, the officials added.
Corporation Commissioner M. Elangovan said that 5 kennels successful Vaikkalpattarai and six kennels successful Shevapet ABC centres are altered arsenic shelters for the dogs. Through these kennels, 100 dogs volition beryllium maintained by the Corporation. For the operation of a canine structure successful Shevapet with the capableness to support 500 stray dogs, a connection was sent to the government, the Commissioner added.
