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The Central Government has notified the new Animal Birth Control Rules in 2023, superseding the 2001 rules. The key aspects of the new rules are: 1) Stray dogs cannot be relocated according to Supreme Court rulings and must be cared for humanely to prevent cruelty. 2) Strays must be caught, vaccinated, sterilized, and returned to their areas. Resident welfare associations must feed strays away from children and elders. 3) Local bodies and municipalities are responsible for birth control and rabies vaccination programs for stray dogs in their areas.

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The Central Government has notified the new Animal Birth Control Rules in 2023, superseding the 2001 rules. The key aspects of the new rules are: 1) Stray dogs cannot be relocated according to Supreme Court rulings and must be cared for humanely to prevent cruelty. 2) Strays must be caught, vaccinated, sterilized, and returned to their areas. Resident welfare associations must feed strays away from children and elders. 3) Local bodies and municipalities are responsible for birth control and rabies vaccination programs for stray dogs in their areas.

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Animal Birth Control(ABC)

Rules, 2023
April 22, 2023
In news– The Central Government has notified the Animal Birth
Control Rules, 2023 vide G.S.R 193(E) dated 10th March, 2023
under Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act, 1960 and after
superseding the Animal Birth Control (Dog) Rules, 2001.

Key rules-

They purportedly respond to three stimuli: strays cannot


be relocated, as the Supreme Court of India has held;
must not face cruelty; and must be cared for.
The 2023 Rules require strays to be caught, vaccinated,
neutered, and released back.
The 2023 Rules also ask residents’ welfare associations
to care for stray dogs and feed them away from the
children and the elderly, at fixed intervals. This could
further the dogs’ homelessness, and thus susceptibility
to disease, injury, and discomfort.
In the process, the Rules also transform “stray dogs”
into a new class of “community animals”.
The 2023 Rules, superseding the ABC (Dog) Rules, 2001,
say that the birth control programmes for sterilisation
and immunisation of stray dogs are to be carried out by
the respective local bodies/ municipalities/ municipal
corporations and panchayats.
The Municipal Corporations need to implement the ABC and
Anti Rabies Program jointly.
The Rules also provides the guidelines how to deal with
the human and stray dog conflicts without relocating the
dogs in an area.
One of the requirements under the Rule is that the
Animal Birth Control Programme needs to be carried out
by the Animal Welfare Board of India(AWBI) recognized
organization specifically recognised for Animal Birth
Control programme.

Note:

According to the World Health Organization, 36% of the


world’s and 65% of Southeast Asia’s rabies deaths happen
in India.
The National Rabies Control Programme has recorded 6,644
clinically suspected cases and deaths of human rabies in
2012-22.
The Animal Birth Control Rules 2001 laid down the law
for the only viable dog population management mechanism
but its implementation was scanty and monitoring was
altogether absent over two decades.

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