ludhiana members of the technical and advisory committee on thursday approved the proposal to hand over the second phase of the stray dog sterilisation project to the existing company the mc will pay rs 236 crore to the company for sterilisation of 25000 stray dogs in the second phase the company will charge rs 945 per dog to the mc in the first phase the charge was rs 760 per dog two hyderabadbased firms vets society for animal welfare and rural development and navodya vet society stepped forward for the project the project was allotted to vets society for animal welfare the company which has the contract offered rs 945 per dog while its competitor offered rs 1100 per dogmc commissioner jaskiran singh said after running checks they gave approval to hand over the project to the existing company after pending dues are cleared they will ask the company to start fresh meanwhile mc senior veterinary officer dr y p singh said now that the technical advisory committee has finalised the company they will start phase 2 of the sterilisation of stray dogs according to him sterilisation of dogs will be done wardwise this time to to cover the entire city more effectively the mc hired the hyderabadbased firm for the project in 2015 the project kicked off on february 25 2015 the company was supposed to sterilise 25000 stray dogs in two years but even after sterilising more than 28000 stray dogs the problems persists therefore the mc decided to go for a second round of the project