Time to begin animal birth control program

While there has been efforts by the government in ensuring development and turning Srinagar into one among the well developed cities across the country, but some of the happenings are putting a question mark over the administration’s efforts as despite elapsing several years, the Animal Birth Control Programme— the only assured manner to control the population of strays, continue to remain missing from the ground, thereby adding to the miseries of the people as the presence of stray dogs continue to irk the local populace here. Some shocking revelations have come to the fore through a media report that only 75 dogs have been sterilized this year, which indicates that nothing much is being done in this regard to control the population of strays. One fails to understand the reasons for not taking off the Animal Birth Control Programme here despite the serious need to tackle the situation as the cases of dog bites have been increasing with each passing year. Promising high and tall, a faster and more efficient Animal Birth Control Program, the concerned corporation in Srinagar is coming up a new sterilization facility at Tengpora Srinagar but is yet to be put to use and also the increasing cases and the snail’s pace on the sterilization process is only adding to the miseries of the people. Therefore, it is the time when the sterilization process should gain a pace amid the ongoing development in Srinagar and also the Animal Birth Control Program should also be started at a massive level so that the situation being witnessed on every road and street will come to an end and the people could heave a sigh of relief.