Even though the medical officer of health had actually said the civic body was performing the animal contraception program successfully, Harpreet Kaur Babla said it was refraining from doing enough to suppress the roaming dog threat.
Chandigarh BJP councillor Harpreet Kaur Babla has actually declared the local corporation led by her own celebration was refraining from doing enough to suppress the roaming dog threat and called the civic body’s dog sterilisation a “complete eyewash”.
“I don’t know what kind of dog sterilisation they are doing. They once caught a dog in sector 28A, and when I asked where is the one you caught, the dog-catching team said the net was such that the dog escaped from it. Chandigarh is a smart city, and yet you don’t have proper equipment even to catch dogs,” said Babla, and included she had actually raised the problem in the civic body’s basic house conference recently.
According to the main figures that came out prior to the basic house conference, Chandigarh tape-recorded 42,866 dog bite cases in the last 4 years.
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In reply to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Anju Katyal looking for information on roaming dogs in the city, the local corporation, the medical officer of health had actually said the civic body was “carrying out the ABC (animal birth control) programme effectively”, and because its creation in 2015, over 22,808 dogs had actually been sterilised.
“As a result, the dog bite cases have reduced significantly,” the reply had actually said.
However, Babla declared although each street has more than 30 roaming dogs, the civic body sterilises just 2 or 3 of them. “If a city like Chandigarh cannot manage these cases, then it’s a fiasco. Dog sterilisation has to be a systematic process,” Babla said.
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She declared that 5 or 6 cases of individuals bitten by animal dogs were reported in Sector 28, however the civic body did not compensate the victim although an arrangement exists for the very same.
AAP councillor Katyal had actually likewise composed to the secretary of the Chandigarh civic body, stating “the entire Chandigarh is suffering from the problem of stray dogs and dog bite cases are increasing each day”.
“Chandigarh is in second place in dog bite cases, and people, especially elderly and children, are terrified due to stray dogs,” she had actually specified.
First released on: 31-07-2023 at 13:43 IST
