Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation to install CCTVs at sterilization center to curb animal cruelty

In a welcome move by the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation to attain 100% sterilization of dogs in the region, the civic body have approved installation of CCTV cameras in the center to curb animal cruelty and transparency in the process.

The standing committee meeting awarded the contract for sterilization to the Animal Friends Welfare Public Society (AFWPS) and would be paid Rs 1,050 for each process. The move comes after the Animal Welfare board derecognized Animal Welfare society in July 2013 which meted out cruelty to animals while conducting birth control programs and MBMC too later terminated its contract.

In Mira-Bhayandar, 19,191 dogs have been sterilized from April 2007 to September 2014. The program aims is to ensure that dogs would be treated in a most professional way under the surveillance which would be monitored by senior officials.

"We would make sure that no dogs are harmed and installing CCTV cameras would ensure that the process is transparent and no animal is cruelly treated or handled by the staffers," said Deepak Kurlekar, deputy municipal commissioner, MBMC.

"The NGO would take in the strays for sterilizing, then administer them anti-rabies vaccination and release them at the spot from where they were picked up," said Kurlekar. "We are aiming for 100% sterilization of dogs in the region," he added.