DogExpress
Recently, teams of the Municipal Corporation started a initiative to catch stray dogs to control the stray dog menace in Bathinda. This drive was started by Municipal Corporation two days ago.
Stray dog menace in the city
Around 1,040 patients visited the Civil Hospital from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016, to get anti-rabies injections. The information was revealed by the Health Department under the RTI Act.
Last year in November, Mayor Balwant Rai Nath was bitten by a stray dog in the Sanjay Nagar area. Thereafter, it was expected that the civic body would initiate a new scheme to tackle the menace. The problem has increased due to the lackluster approach of the corporation.
A resident of Pukhraj colony, Sunil said, he had filed number of complaints with officials of the MC regarding the stray dog menace, but to no avail.
Dog Sterilized
Officials of the civic body claim that as many as 20 dogs have been sterilized in the past two days while earlier 50 dogs were sterilized in the city.
A dog shelter scheme of the civic body has been lying in cold storage for the past one year.
BJP leader Sunil Singla and Congress councillor Sherry Goyal said, the civic body should take the issue seriously. They said besides stray dogs, stray cattle had also become a cause of worry for residents of the city.
Around 22 people died and more than 100 injured in the past five years due to stray animals.
Source: The Tribune
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