LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has decided to entrust a US-based nonprofit with the task to neuter or spay stray dogs in the city at LMC’s new sterilisation centre in Gomtinagar.
The centre is equipped to conduct the procedures on 1,500 dogs every month. Currently, only 60 are covered a month while the LMC complaint cell, on an average, receives 35 calls about dog bites or accidents because of strays.
While the civic authorities are sanguine that the initiative will curb the burgeoning canine population, the task is a Herculean one given that Lucknow has 60,000 stray dogs at the moment. Even if the new centre works non-stop, it will be another three years and four months before all the animals are either neutered or spayed.
According to the agreement inked between the LMC and the US outfit, the latter will sterilise around 18,000 dogs a year for which the civic body will pay around Rs 60 lakh per annum. The NGO will also treat stray dogs injured in road accidents or those that are ill.
Municipal commissioner Indramani Tripathi said the LMC would provide the NGO required infrastructure and vans to catch dogs. “It will have to bring its own manpower and equipment for sterilisation. We hope to see some difference in a year,” Tripathi added.
The centre is equipped to conduct the procedures on 1,500 dogs every month. Currently, only 60 are covered a month while the LMC complaint cell, on an average, receives 35 calls about dog bites or accidents because of strays.
While the civic authorities are sanguine that the initiative will curb the burgeoning canine population, the task is a Herculean one given that Lucknow has 60,000 stray dogs at the moment. Even if the new centre works non-stop, it will be another three years and four months before all the animals are either neutered or spayed.
According to the agreement inked between the LMC and the US outfit, the latter will sterilise around 18,000 dogs a year for which the civic body will pay around Rs 60 lakh per annum. The NGO will also treat stray dogs injured in road accidents or those that are ill.
Municipal commissioner Indramani Tripathi said the LMC would provide the NGO required infrastructure and vans to catch dogs. “It will have to bring its own manpower and equipment for sterilisation. We hope to see some difference in a year,” Tripathi added.
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