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| Time for stray dogs to leave Kashmir! | | `Pied Piper’ on prowl | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 22: Beware all stray dogs of Srinagar. A `Pied Piper’ is on the prowl in summer capital of the state. Officials claim a man they found recently can play the Pied Piper and make all dogs leave Kashmir.
The Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, Dr Asgar Hassan Samoon has urged the `Piper’ Khurshid Ahmed Mir to try his skills on two municipal wards on experimental basis.
An official handout issued last week confirmed the development. According to the handout a meeting chaired by Samoon was held last week. Khurshid also participated and discussed his modus operandi.
Samoon has directed the Municipal Corporation to allow Khurshid try his skills in two wards subject to the condition that he does not kill the canines. Khurshid is expected to start his work shortly.
Khurshid is not a magician like the Piper of Himelin who got rid of the rats of his town for a few thousand guilders. He is a businessman and runs a consultancy. His services are sought by five star hotels in India and abroad.
According to data furnished by the Municipality, the city of Srinagar has around 200,000 stray dogs. The city needs only 5000 dogs for scavenging. The rest, experts believe have to go. The Municipality had plans to poison the dogs. The poison worth Rs 15 lakhs, internal sources said, had been procured but could not be administered as the news was leaked to animal rights activists who came to the rescue of the canines.
The alarming increase of dog population, according to medicos in SMHS hospital was directly proportional to increase in dog bite cases. As per official data, the anti-rabies clinic at Srinagar's SMHS hospital registers 4000 cases of dog bites every year. There has been a staggering increase in the dog bite cases. In 2005, these totaled 4311, while the cases added up to 2,873 in 2006, 3434 in 2007 and 4035 in 2008.
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