This aims at boosting community dogs’ sterilisation efforts in Delhi
In a bid to give a boost to the sterilisation process, the Delhi government plans to set up five more centres for birth control and sterilisation. Once these centres are operationalised, there will be 21 centres in total in Delhi and NCR. The proposed centres are likely to come up in Dwarka Sector 29, Rohini Sector 27, Tughlakabad, Prahladpur and Mundhela, the Municipal officers said. There are currently 16 such centres at present in Delhi and NCR.
The process by which it happens is that community dogs are either picked up by NGOs or veterinarians or brought to these centres. Here, they are sterlised and immunised against rabies and kept in observation for a few days. The community dogs are then released back in the same areas from where they were picked up.
In these centres space is provided to keep the dogs and neuter them.
Under the Law of the land, it is illegal for an individual, residents’ body or municipal bodies to remove the dogs from the areas to which they belong.
It is estimated that in the last 10 years, the Municipal body has spent more than Rupees 55 crore on dog sterilisation programme and has covered more than 575,000 dogs between 2014 and 2023.
Even though there is no data on number of community dogs that can roam Delhi’s streets, MCD’s animal birth control programme is targeting to sterilise at least 80% dogs in an area to stop population growth.
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