Mumbai: BMC to dip into its kitty to sterilise cityâs feline folks
BMC to pay Rs 800 to neuter male cat and Rs 1,000 for female cat
With the cityâs cat population exploding due to the pandemic, the BMC now plans to sterilise homeless cats in the city. The civic body might have to float tenders once again this year to appoint organisations/ agencies to carry out the task. Like homeless dogs in Mumbai, the population of cats has also increased significantly. Taking note of this rising population of stray cats, in June 2018, the civic body asked for permission from the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) to include stray cats in the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme under which dogs are sterilised too.
Activists want NGO’s licence revoked for ill-treating animals
ByAlka DhupkarAlka Dhupkar / Updated: Dec 13, 2020, 06:00 IST
Malad-based society is under scanner after remains of dogs were found recently
Activists have written to the BMC, the state government and the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) urging them to cancel the licence of Malad-based NGO Universal Animal Welfare Society over ill-treatment and death of
animals.
The NGO, which works with the civic body to sterilise stray animals, came under the scanner recently after remains of dogs were found near its facility.
Later, an FIR was registered. Taking cognisance of complaints, the Animal Welfare Board of India asked the Commissioner of Animal Husbandry to investigate the Universal Animal Welfare Society and take appropriate action as per law against the erring officials and forward the action taken report to it immediately.