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Delhi and Bengaluru race to build stray dog shelters after court order
MCD has sought five acres at Ghazipur for a second stray dog shelter after Delhi High Court ordered a ward-wise sterilisation pilot project. Standing committee chairperson Satya Sharma said the land, next…
The Story in Brief
MCD has sought five acres at Ghazipur for a second stray dog shelter after Delhi High Court ordered a ward-wise sterilisation pilot project. Standing committee chairperson Satya Sharma said the land, next to an MCD veterinary hospital, needs government approval. The under-construction Dwarka centre is not yet operational. Only 13 of 20 animal birth control centres are running, cutting monthly sterilisation capacity to 8,500 dogs. NGOs that fail standards face removal.
In Bengaluru, BNCC will start shifting institutional stray dogs this week to its new Medi Agrahara shelter, built at Rs 2 crore for 500 dogs. Commissioner Pommala Sunil Kumar said the operator, Bhootpurva Sainik Welfare Sansthan, has a one-year contract at Rs 3,050 per dog per month. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board has meanwhile asked West City Corporation for clearances on its Sumanahalli shelter, flagging possible wastewater discharge into the Vrishabhavathi river.
The Indian Opinion
Dog shelters get announced faster than they get built. MCD pins hope on a Ghazipur plot while its Dwarka centre remains incomplete. Bengaluru North has a finished shelter but now faces pollution board queries. Both cities talk of picking up aggressive dogs, but citizens filing RTIs show the gap between promise and reality. The real test: will MCD name and remove failing NGOs, and will KSPCB data back its water-contamination fears? Accountability will be found in the monthly sterilisation numbers, not the press releases.
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