MC to launch drive against stray dogs in Yamunanagar, Jagadhri

The Municipal Corporation Yamunanagar–Jagadhri (MCYJ) will soon begin catching stray dogs across the twin cities. In the first phase, ferocious dogs will be caught and shifted to dog shelters.

The MCYJ has appointed nodal officers to ensure hospitals, railway stations, bus stands, educational institutions, and other public and private places are cleared of stray dogs.

At a meeting with officials of the MCYJ and the Animal Husbandry Department, Municipal Commissioner Mahabir Parsad instructed the department to complete all preparations for anti-rabies vaccination and sterilisation. He also directed that signboards and hoardings displaying the helpline number 7082410824 be installed at public places for reporting stray dogs.

“I have issued directions to all officials to comply with the orders of the Supreme Court regarding stray dogs,” said Municipal Commissioner Mahabir Parsad.

He said the MC had floated a tender for the sterilisation and vaccination of stray dogs. “Three dog shelters, including those in Gulab Nagar and on Ambala Road, have been established for sterilisation and vaccination,” he added.

Officials were instructed to prioritise the clearing of government and private hospitals, educational institutions, railway stations and bus stands. Nodal officers have been appointed across institutions to coordinate dog control efforts.

Parsad said patrolling teams would soon be formed and the MCYJ was working in coordination with the police, veterinary staff, the Animal Husbandry Department and the Health Department to capture stray dogs.

“Sterilisation and vaccination of dogs will reduce the rising cases of dog bites in the twin cities,” he said, adding that dogs would be caught and shifted to shelters as soon as information was received on the helpline.

Additional Municipal Commissioner Dheeraj Kumar, Chief Sanitary Inspector Vinod Beniwal, CSI Harjeet Singh, Sanitation Inspector Govind Sharma, Dr Satbir Singh and other officials attended the meeting.