aurangabad the aurangabad municipal corporation amc is planning to float a new tender to hire a private agency that will use its own infrastructure to carry out the animal birth control abc programme the civic body is responsible for carrying out animal birth control programmes and there are guidelines for dog catching sterilisation pre and postoperative procedures and rabies eradicationcurrently the amc has engaged the services of ranchi based hope animal trust to implement the programme in the city according to the amc over the past six months hope animal trust has carried out 3209 sterilisations according to the contract the agency isto get rs 950 for each sterilisation however the problem of stray dogs continues on january 12 a twoanda half year old girl was bitten by a stray dog in padegaon last year a 10 year old boy a resident of barudgar nullah had succumbed to the injuries he got from an attack by a pack of dogs residential and commercial areas in buddi lane city chowk roshan gate central naka cidco n3 n5 n9 n11 railway station osmanpura and mukundwadi complain of stray dogs posing a threatbhagwat naikwade chief animal husbandry officer of the amc said the dog sterilisation programme would require improvement in the infrastructure of the amcs dog clinic at central naka demolishing the existing operation theatre opd rooms and constructing new rooms dog kennels for the pre and postoperative care of dogs are required a proposal was sent for financial approval last year meanwhile on friday mayor nandkumar ghodele said the amc has given ultimatum to the agency for not performing up to the mark in order to the address the problem of the infrastructure we will issue tenders to invite agencies to use their own infrastructure and carry out the animal birth control programme ghodele saidthe mayor added that the amc will spend more money to hire such an agency