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NT Bureau
Chennai, Mar 14:
 

Animal Welfare Board of India(AWBI) Chairman Dr R M Kharb at a press meet in Chennai today. Noted actress and member of AWBI, Amala is also seen.

        Animal Welfare Board of India(AWBI) chairman Dr R M Kharb condemned the killings of stray dogs in Bangalore. At a press conference today, he said that the killing of stray dogs should be stopped immediately.

        'A monetary committee should be formed. What is happening in Bangalore is cruel: We are shocked,' he said.

        Elaborating on the series of events planned by the AWBI, he said with the help of over 2,500 NGOs and by joining hands with Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), the board has planned to conduct 'Rabies Free India-The Pilot projects' across the country.

        A series of awareness campaigns on how to deal with stray dogs, immunisation, effective training programmes and modernising the Goshalas would be part of the pilot projects launched to spread this message across the country, he said.

        Referring to the funding of the state governments on animal welfare, he said that few of the state governments had come forward to help them financially.

        Actress Amala, a AWBI member, said that there was a helpline for the board through which people could contact the board for getting information or filing a complaint but today no such facility exists and hoped that the board would soon have that facility.

        'Dogs play a role in solid waste management. They should be cared for not killed,' she opined.

        Later speaking to NewsToday, Kharb said that pilot projects have been implemented in places like Gurgaon, East Delhi, Jodhpur, Ludhiana and Bangalore.

        He further said that the there was urgent need to interact with, educate and sensitise animal lovers and the general public so that such acts of cruelty to animals were curbed. A National seminar in this regard will also be organised shortly, he informed.

        He quoted the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation that we must adopt the Animal Birth Control or Anti-Rabies Inoculation Programme rather than kill these animals.