Says AMC staff dumps and dislocates sterilised dogs; this will affect the ABC programme.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) may have signed an MoU with the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), but it is yet to follow norms notified by the latter.
Following complaints from residents, the AWBI has served a notice to the civic body for dumping and dislocating sterilised dogs instead of releasing them back at the same place from where they were picked.
A letter written to AMC chief IP Gautam by chairman of AWBI, Dr RM Kharb, states that the AMC staff is again resorting to dumping and dislocating sterilised and vaccinated dogs, at various places on the outskirts of the city.
"No proper system for identification of locations from which the dogs are picked up is being followed. Instead of releasing them at the very location from which they were picked, the dogs are routinely being dislocated," the letter states.
It furthers says that they have photographs of dogs dumped in this manner, without any food, and water, left to die horrible deaths.
Moreover, the strictly-worded letter also suggests that the AMC's move to dump dogs on the outskirts of the city will play havoc with the city's animal birth control programme.
"Dogs from neighbouring areas will keep filling up the vacuum created by the displaced dogs. The animal birth control programme and its salutary effect (sterilised, vaccinated dogs keeping other dogs from entering their territories) are therefore bound to fail. This will only increase the human-animal conflict in Ahmedabad," the letter says.
The AWBI has also asked the AMC to develop a proper system of identification of locations. It has also asked the civic body to take help of concerned NGOs to ensure that sterilised and vaccinated dogs are released back at the very location that they are picked up from. "I am certain that you shall take the necessary steps to ensure that both, the MOU entered into between the AMC and AWBI, and the city's animal birth control programme, are not rendered useless," states the letter.
Deputy municipal commissioner, Dilip Mahajan who has been looking after the dog sterilization and vaccination programme said people complain if the sterilised dogs are left at the same place.
"The AMC staff has to face people's wrath if they put sterilised dogs in the same location. So, we have been leaving sterilised dogs in nearby colonies," he said.
"Once we start the dog sterilisation and vaccination programme with NGOs, we will work out a plan to ensure that dogs are returned to the area from which they were picked up," said Mahajan.
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