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KARACHI: The provincial government of Sindh is finalising an over Rs1 billion programme that mainly focuses on vaccination of stray dogs to control their population.
According to sources, a report prepared by the Sindh local government department suggested that the authorities were waiting for the formal approval of the chief minister for the Rs1.07bn programme focuses on vaccination of stray dogs to control their population.
The report said a massive fund in the programme would be allocated from a non-ADP annual development program scheme with multiple new mechanisms of the project to make the province rabies-free.
The report further stated with the association of the livestock department like the model of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rabies control programme, the population of stray dogs control programme would be devised in Sindh province.
The district municipal corporations (DMCs) would be asked to provide a 20-member strong staff for the programme in all districts that would operate round the clock in different shifts.