A bunch of stray canine in New Delhi on September 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
Pointing to the dearth of accountability by the implementing businesses, together with civic authorities and NGOs, which was just lately flagged by courts, Gauri Maulekhi, a member of the State ABC panel, stated, “Leaving implementation solely to those businesses has didn’t ship efficient stray canine administration throughout town. We will oversee the implementation and examine violations of the rules.”
The monitoring committee, established in all States and Union Territories beneath the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, is chargeable for monitoring the implementation of the ABC programmes to cut back man-animal battle and eradicate rabies.
The committee has been reconstituted by the Delhi Government and is headed by the Urban Development Department Secretary, with conferences now scheduled each two months to trace progress and compliance.
Ms. Maulekhi’s comment got here two days after the federal government notified new tips for ABC programmes.
The bolstered tips, notified by the federal government on Monday, elaborated detailed steps for road canine inhabitants administration, rabies eradication, and discount of human-dog battle. The letter issued to civic authorities, together with MCD and the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) reiterated that, solely Animal Welfare Organizations acknowledged by AWBI are allowed to conduct sterilisation drives.
Additionally, ABC centres should now meet strict infrastructure standards, together with having kennels, operation theatres with energy backup, CCTV surveillance, cell vans, and incinerators. Status reviews, each month-to-month and annual, have to be submitted to AWBI by means of the State ABC Monitoring Committee. Stricter implementation of the reimbursement course of has to adopted: sterilisation prices might be reimbursed solely after verifying the variety of organs eliminated throughout surgical procedures as per ABC guidelines 2023.
Furthermore, in instances of disputes between Resident Welfare Associations (RWA) and residents, the committee prescribed beneath Rule 20 of the ABC Rules, 2023, will examine and resolve conflicts. Protocols have additionally been outlined for managing aggressive or rabid canine, together with their isolation or everlasting housing in AWBI-recognized shelters.
She additionally added that the committee has streamlined grievance redressal mechanisms, permitting aggrieved events to straight method the State Monitoring Committee as an alternative of relying solely on MCD selections.
Published – September 18, 2025 05:35 am IST
