WISH WE COULD KILL THEM. but we can not
INDIA
National
Multi centric Rabies Survey, conducted in 2003 by the Association for
Prevention and Control of Rabies in India in collaboration with the
World Health Organization reported that there were 20, 565 deaths from rabies per year in India.More than 10, 00,000 people undergo anti-rabies vaccination every year.
Every
two seconds, one person is bitten by a dog in India. It is reported
that there are approximately 25 million(2.5 crore) dogs, with an
estimated dog: man ratio of 1:36 in India.
How Grave is the situation
It is known that $25 million are
spent on Post Exposure Prophylaxis in India annually. Around 40% of
Post Exposure Prophylaxis is given to children below the age of 15yrs.
Most
rabies deaths were in males (62%), in rural areas (91%), and in
children below the age of 15 years (50%). As per recent National
guidelines for prevention of rabies in India 2013, dogs are responsible
for about 97% of human rabies, followed by cats (2%), jackals, mongoose
and others (1%). Across Asia the annual expenditure due to rabies is
estimated to be reaching 563 million USD.
Just
as the saying, ‘every dog has its day’, it seems it is stray dogs’ time
in our country. ‘Acche din’ have indeed come for stray dogs! And truly
sad is the situation of common people – kids and women being the worst
affected among them.
As per Indian law, street dogs cannot be beaten, killed or driven away or displaced or dislocated, they can only be sterilized in the manner envisaged in the The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001
enacted under the Indian Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960 (A
Central Act),vaccinated, and then returned back to their original
locations.Rule 6 and Rule 7 of The Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, state as follows:
Rule 6 clearly envisages that even if the Municipal Corporation thinks it expedient to control street dog populations; IT CANNOT RESORT TO KILLING OR DISLOCATING. It can only sterilize and immunize the dogs, and then leave them at the locations that they had been picked up from.Rule 7 deals with the procedure to be followed upon receipt of a complaint. Please also note, the Municipality, cannot just pick up dogs, if some persons/administrators see it as a treat to humans. Even the dogs that are complained about can only be sterilized and immunized, and then left back at the locations that they had been picked up from.
Rule 6 clearly envisages that even if the Municipal Corporation thinks it expedient to control street dog populations; IT CANNOT RESORT TO KILLING OR DISLOCATING. It can only sterilize and immunize the dogs, and then leave them at the locations that they had been picked up from.Rule 7 deals with the procedure to be followed upon receipt of a complaint. Please also note, the Municipality, cannot just pick up dogs, if some persons/administrators see it as a treat to humans. Even the dogs that are complained about can only be sterilized and immunized, and then left back at the locations that they had been picked up from.
"The
penalty amount for killing a stray dog was only Rs 50. If everyone
decides to kill a stray dog a day, then the menace will be over."
‘Stray-Dog-free Movement' chairman Kochouseph Chittilappilly
The anti-rabies vaccine business in India is worth 8,000 crore
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