kozhikode a district level meeting held at the collectorate conference hall here on monday decided to carry out sterilization on both pet dogs and stray dogs under the proposed animal birth control abc programme karuna to be implemented in the district deputy director of animal husbandry department dr a c mohandas said breeding license will be made mandatory to exclude breeding dogs from the sterilization process the karuna project envisages setting up eight abc centres in the district to carry out simultaneous sterilisation process on dogs a centre will carry out sterilization on ten dogs per day thus plan to cover 10000 dogs in five monthsthe animal husbandry department will set up abc centres with the help of respective local selfgovernment bodies the sterilised dogs will be kept at the centres for three days a mark will be put up on the ear of the sterilised dogs to differentiate them from other dogs nongovernment organisation bgos will be entrusted for the execution of the project the work including picking up the stray dogs from the various streets taking care of the dogs for three dogs and leaving them on the same spot they were picked up after the sterilisation process will be the responsibilities of the ngosthe meeting also decided to install close circuit television cameras at the sterilization centres ngo will conduct a scientific survey on stray dogs prior to the execution of the project the meeting also decided to make licenses mandatory for pet dogs in the initial phase mobile sterilization centre will be launched in the districtthe eight abc centres will be set up to meet the requirements of entire district the centre at mankave will meet the requirements of ramanattukkara kadalundy feroke perumanna peruvayal thalakulathur olavanna and kozhikode corporation areasthe stray dogs and pet dogs in the kodanchery puthuppady omassery thamarassery kattuppara koodaranchi thirvambadi and kizhakkoth will fall under the jurisdictions of puthuppady abc centre kunnamangalam sterilization centre will cover the kunnamangalam mavoor chathamangalam koduvally kuruvattoor kakkodi karassery kodiyathur and mukkom grama panchayats balussery centre will cover the areas fall under the limits of balussery chelannur kakkur narikuni madavoor nanmanda panangad unnikkulamulliyeri and kottoor grama panchayats abc centre at koyilandy will cover the dogs fall under the limits of chemancheri chengottukkavu atholi moodadi koyilandy arrikulam keezhariyoor thikkodi and payyoli district panchayat president babu parassery district collector n prashanth district animal husbandry officer dr u s ramanchandran and heads of various lsg bodies attended the meeting