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10 lakh people bitten by dogs, loss of Rs 600 crore
Ahmedabad, 5 April 2025
The number of stray dogs on the streets and lanes of Gujarat has increased drastically. He has become violent. All kinds of incidents of biting humans keep coming to the fore.
Cost
In three years, one million people have been bitten by dogs. The treatment of a human being due to dog bite costs the government and the public an average of one to two thousand rupees. Accordingly, the cost of treatment and vaccine of one person is Rs. 100 to Rs. 200 crore. Along with this, people’s time and jobs are lost, and urban governments also spend the same amount on waste disposal. Thus, dogs are now becoming expensive in Gujarat. Its cost ranges from Rs. 300 crore to 600 crore. On average that person earns Rs. 1000. Its cost is Rs. 100.
Solution
A good solution for dogs is to catch the biting dog and leave it in the forest where leopards live. So that the prey of dairy animals can be saved and food can also be provided to the dogs.
Failed system
A total of 8,94,679 incidents of dog bites have occurred in Gujarat in the three years from the year 2022 to 2024 and in the month of January of the year 2025. Despite the increase in the number of dogs attacking even children and the elderly, the state government has not been able to control such a dire situation and in January 2025 alone, 53,942 citizens have been bitten by dogs.
Sarpanchs in villages and mayors in cities are also unable to provide relief from problems like dog bites. Such is the situation that a person walking on the road or a driver has to live in fear of being harassed by dogs.
Lok Sabha
The figures presented in response to a question in the Lok Sabha are shocking, as the number of dog bite incidents is increasing every year. On an average, 1,800 people are bitten by dogs every day in Gujarat. This makes it clear how troublesome it would be to catch or sterilize dogs in metropolitan cities. The figures also show that dog bites are more common in Gujarat except for a few states.
Country
According to the data of January 2025, there were 53,942 incidents of dog bites in Gujarat, while there were 34,442 in Bihar, 3196 in Delhi, 39,437 in Karnataka, 16,170 in Madhya Pradesh, 56,538 in Maharashtra, 15,062 in Rajasthan and 20,478 in Uttar Pradesh.
The Central Animal Husbandry Department has paid special attention to the work done by Bengaluru Metropolitan City to control the number of dogs. The percentage of sterilization has reached 20 percent. This will help in controlling the population and birth rate of dogs. (Google translation from Gujarati)
