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Tiruchi Corporation connected Monday launched an anti-rabies vaccination campy to administer booster doses to 10,000 stray dogs crossed the city.
Mayor M. Anbazhagan flagged the campy astatine the Corporation’s main bureau successful the beingness of Corporation Commissioner Veer Pratap Singh, City Health Officer M. Karthikeyan and Deputy Mayor G. Dhivya.
According to a 2025 survey, the stray canine colonisation wrong metropolis limits was estimated astatine 43,767. Of these, 20,571 dogs had been sterilised, portion 23,196 had not undergone sterilisation.
Following the survey, 8,698 stray dogs were sterilised, vaccinated against rabies and released backmost to their archetypal locations successful 2025. In 2026, different 3,054 stray dogs person been sterilised truthful far. The Corporation has initiated measures to implicit the sterilisation and vaccination of the remaining 11,444 stray dogs wrong this year.
As anti-rabies vaccines indispensable beryllium administered erstwhile each 2 years to guarantee continued extortion against the disease, the civic assemblage has organised the campy to place antecedently sterilised dogs and supply booster doses. A full of 10,000 stray dogs are targeted for booster vaccination this year. In 2025, booster doses were administered to astir 5,000 stray dogs, according to a Corporation property release.
