A housing society in this area that is dealing with the same problem and is mired in litigation over it was visited by BJP politician and former Union minister Vijay Goel, who has been spearheading a push against the stray dog scourge in Delhi.
Goel said on Tuesday during his visit to the Bramha Suncity community in the Wadgaonsheri neighborhood that a ten-point program should be put into place to address the issue. people claim that in February of this year, a youngster in the neighborhood was bitten by stray dogs. As a result, people reported to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).
A non-resident animal activist filed a case with the Bombay High Court, forcing the PMC to return the 50 to 60 canines that it had taken. The residents thereafter petitioned the Supreme Court, where they succeeded in getting the HC ruling stayed.
A 10-point plan is required to handle the problem, according to Goel, including the complete sterilization of stray dogs, the provision of anti-rabies shots, the implementation of a successful dog adoption program, and the government’s need to compensate victims of dog bites.
“Packs of stray dogs are roaming around and they pose a danger to senior citizens and children in housing societies,” he said. Municipalities, according to the former Union minister, should be handling the stray dog problem, but they aren’t.
He said that the Animal Birth Control Rules, which the animal welfare board just released, are another obstacle to solving the problem. “We recently met with the concerned minister and requested him that there is a need to amend these rules and guidelines,” Goel added.
One of the society’s members, Nagendra Rampuria, said that after learning about Goel’s campaign against the stray dog problem, they ran into him in Delhi and told him about their plight. Goel was joined on his visit to the community by former BJP city unit president Jagdish Mulik and former standing committee chairman Yogesh Mulik.
