FIAPO appeals civic body to run animal birth control prog

In the wake of rising number of dog bite incidents in the city, Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisation (FIAPO) has appealed to Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to implement a large-scale Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme to provide a long-term solution.
Under the ABC programme, street dogs are caught and surgically made sterile and then left at their original territories after being administered a preventive shot of rabies. And is one of the most successful programmes in many Indian cities like Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbaia, a press release from FIAPO issued here stated.
It is also one of the effective ways known to prevent dog bites and rabies.

"The ABC programme currently undertaken by the civic body is inadequately small, and thus, completely ineffective. According to a research, at least 70 per cent of dogs need to be sterilised for the programme to have an impact, whereas the current coverage of the NMC is nowhere near that," it said.
Director of FIAPO, Varda Mehrotra, said "The only scientific and legal method to control dog-population and to reduce incidents of dog-bites and rabies is for the municipal corporation to run a large-scale Animal Birth Control programmes.