More than an year after successfully reviving the mass sterilisation and vaccination programme for stray dogs, the Vellore Corporation will soon set up Animal Birth Control (ABC) centre in the remaining three zones of the town to accelerate the process of mass sterilisation ahead of summer holidays.
The initiative, which was disclosed by Mayor Sujatha Ananthakumar during the budgetary meeting with the councillors and municipal officials, comes after the successful implementation of mass sterilisation drive at its first ABC centre in Zone-1 of the civic body that was revamped in December 2022.
“The idea is to decentralise the mass sterilisation programme by setting up ABC centres in all zones. It will help address stray dogs issue effectively,” P. Janaki Raveendran, Commissioner, Vellore Corporation, told The Hindu.
