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Hindustan Times Special - Dog shelter plan too expensive, says civic body............Sujit Mahamulkar Mumbai
THE TWO shelters proposed to house the stray dogs that have become a menace on Mumbai’s streets are apparently proving too expensive for the BMC, and the plan has been shelved.
A year ago, the civic body had decided to build shelters at Vasai and Palghar in Thane district, to house 77,000 stray dogs from the city. “We have stalled the project as the shifting process, constructing compound wall, shelter, cages and further maintenance like feeding and taking care of the dogs, would be very expensive. It would cost at least Rs 50 crore initially,” said Dr Jairaj Thanekar, chief of the health department. Another health department of- ficial said the BMC would have incurred costs of Rs 20 crore per year per 10,000 canines. The BMC had even selected 43 acres in Palghar and Vasai for the rehabilitation process after the Bombay High Court, in a di- rective in June 2007, listed it as one of the options to control the number of strays in the city. Sub sequently, the state’s urban de velopment department also pre pared to hand over the plots. Now, instead of shifting the dogs out of the city, the BMC has decided to concentrate on the sterilisation programme. “We will review the sterilisation programme after a year and decide whether the plan needs to be changed,” said Thanekar. Public Health Committee Chairperson Shubhada Gudekar, however, is all for shifting the strays out of the city. “Stray dogs should be shifted outside the city limits. It is good for the strays as well as for the people. Sterilisation will not be an effec tive solution,” she said. The BMC stopped culling strays following a 1994 court or der. Last year, Municipal Com missioner Jairaj Phatak had said the civic body was in favour of culling canines and the BMC’s standing committee ap proved a proposal. That case is now being heard. URL:http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/artMailDisp.aspx?article=20_08_2008_007_001&typ=0&Archtype=&pub=264 |
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