six lakh stray dogs will now be rehabilitated in two �??townships�?�

In a city where eight million people live in slums, six lakh stray dogs will now be rehabilitated in two �??townships�?� on the outskirts of the city. On Wednesday, the Mumbai municipal corporation finally took possession of the two plots at Paighar and Thane.
After a long delay following concerns over how exactly the BMC would house and look after the dogs, the BMC on Wednesday took possession of a 25-acre plot at Tembode village in Paighar and an 18-acre plot at Kondle village in Wada taluka, Thane district.
The state�??s urban development department will make the announcement in an affidavit to be submitted to the Bombay high court on September29 on the steps that the government has taken to curb the stray dog menace in the city.
The BMC had earlier mentioned the plan to the full bench of the HG comprising Jus
tices S Radhakrishnan, Dilip Bhosale and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani who were hearing a petition on the matter. In June, the bench gave its nod to a host of measures including the two mega dog shelters, steriisation programmes and a 24-hour helpline. �??The idea is to give the dogs a decent life,�?� Justice Radhakrishnan noted.
Although animal activists may not approve of the final plan, the BMC believes it has now resolved the dilemma over tackling the growing population of dogs. �??The dogs will live permanently in the shelter. The idea is to have no stray dogs on the city streets,�?� additional municipal commissioner Kishore Gajbhiye told TOL Admitting that no other city in the country or the world had such an exclusive township for dogs, Gajbhiye said, �??Mumbai�??s dogs wifi now live in a rural background. One of the plots is a forest area whereas the other is open land.�?�
The shelters wifi be run by NGOs, said Gajbhiye.
Abod Aras of Welfare of Stray Dogs pointed out that the court�??s order says only dogs that are not sterilised should be taken away, that too, in a phased manner. �??We had maintained in the court this is not a practical solution because these dogs are free roaming animals. The cost of keeping them captive is too high. The behaviour patterns of territorial dogs (pack leaders) may lead them to fight among themselves to prove hierarchy. Nonzoonotic contagious diseases may also spread among the dogs,�?� says animal activist Dr Deepa Katyal,

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