Bengaluru’s shelved stray dog microchipping plan back on track
Bengaluru's stray dog microchipping initiative is being revived following a directive from the Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry. Municipal corporations are now required to implant RFID tags during animal birth control surgeries and maintain data on these procedures. The initiative aims to improve stray animal management and has been restructured to ease implementation challenges faced previously.
- ▪The Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry has directed municipal corporations to implant RFID tags during animal birth control surgeries.
- ▪Corporations will be eligible for special assistance from the Centre for establishing ABC centres and covering sterilisation costs.
- ▪The microchipping initiative was previously planned by the BBMP but faced challenges and legal opposition from animal rights activists.
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The stray dog microchipping initiative, which had been put on the back burner, is back on track, with the Union Ministry of Animal Husbandry directing municipal corporations to implant radio frequency identification (RFID) tags during animal birth control (ABC) surgeries.The direction follows a decision to maintain data on ABC centres and surgeries undertaken by States and to steadily review the progress of the programme. Now, not just Bengaluru, but other urban local bodies in Karnataka too will have to take up the initiative, as the directive has been issued by the Central Government.Centre’s directionsAccording to the documents of the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying reviewed by The Hindu, the ABC project-in-charge will have to register all ABC centres across their…
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