Summary:
“The PMC has finalised four agencies for the sterilisation of stray dogs in the city, and one of them will also catch the dogs and inject anti-rabies vaccine. Wagh said as many as 11,707 stray dogs were sterilised and vaccinated in 2017-18, and the civic body has now set a target of sterilising and vaccinating 20,000 dogs for 2018-19. The same agency will also carry out a dog census and help develop a mobile app to keep track of stray dogs. The civic body has decided to appoint the agencies for three years instead of the usual one-year contract. The reports had also pointed out that the number of stray dogs in the city was increasing despite the civic body spending a large amount of money in efforts to keep the canine population under control, raising doubts about the procedure of sterilisation of stray dogs..