Pune: Animal rights activist and environmentalist Maneka Gandhi visited the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) kennel at Mohannagar in Chinchwad on Thursday. PCMC commissioner Ashish Sharma and medical staff were present.
She reviewed the sterilisation process of stray dogs and suggested restructuring of municipal kennel to carry out animal birth control programme.
Citing the examples of how developed countries are carrying out effective birth control programmes on municipality levels, she said that there is a need to change the outlook of people in the country regarding stray animals.
Gandhi said that the civic administration should at least conduct 40-50 operations daily and needs to have a well-equipped and spacious kennels providing facilities like separate operation theatres to carry out surgeries, separate kitchen to provide nutritious diet to stray dogs and recovery room under one roof.
Gandhi assured to help the civic body by sending experts to carry out sterilisation and train staff. She requested the administration to organise public awareness campaigns on how stray dogs help the environment.
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