Lok Sabha Question No. 3659 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-16
Subject: Dogs and Monkeys Menace
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: SADHU SINGH, LAXMI NARAYAN YADAV, VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3659

TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.03.2018

## Dogs and Monkeys Menace

3659.   PROF. SADHU SINGH:

SHRI LAXMI NARAYAN YADAV: SHRI VIJAY KUMAR HANSDAK:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether dogs and monkeys have become a menace in many places in the country including Delhi;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereto;
- (c) the number of persons bitten by monkeys and dogs in the country including Delhi during the last three years;
- (d) the efforts made for curbing the menace of monkeys and dogs; and
- (e) the details of the success achieved as a result thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (DR. MAHESH SHARMA)

- (a),(b) and(c) There have been reports of dogs and monkeys become a menace in some parts of the  country  including  Delhi.  The  management  of  such  conflict  is  handled  by concerned State/UT Governments as per Rules, Guidelines in vogue. In respect of stray  dogs,  Central  Government  has  enacted  the  Animal  Birth  Control  (Dogs) Rules,  2001  to  control  the  population  of  stray  dogs  through  sterilization  and immunization  of  stray  dogs  to  control  rabies  through  local  bodies/Panchayats. Details  of  the  number  of  persons  bitten  by  monkeys  and  dogs  in  the  country including Delhi are not collated by the Ministry.
- (d)&(e) The important efforts made for curbing the menace of monkeys and dogs by the Government as follows:
-  Provisions  under  the  Wild  Life  (Protection)  Act,  1972  to  deal  with  the issues  relating  to  monkey  menace.  Section  11&12  of  the  Act  empowers Chief Wildlife Wardens to take action for control of population management including monkey menace.
-  The Ministry has issued guidelines/advisories in context of human-wildlife conflict to the Chief Wildlife Wardens of all the State Governments/Union

Territory Administrations dated 24 th December, 2014 and 1 st June, 2015.

-  Further, the Ministry has approved  a pilot project  on  the  immunocontraception for controlling the population of wild animals responsible for damage and destruction of crops, namely; elephant, wild boar, monkey, and nilgai.
-  Animal Welfare Board of India has brought out the Module for Street Dog Population  Management,  Rabies  Eradication,  and  Reducing  Man-Dog Conflict  to  control  the  population  of  stray  dogs  and  rabies  and  has  also uploaded the same in its website.  Also letters have been written to all State Governments to implement the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001 as per the mandate given to the local authorities in the Rules and also as per the interim directions of the Supreme court authorities in the Rules and also as per the interim directions of the Supreme Court in SLP (C) No. 691 of 2009, Animal Welfare Board of India Vs P.E.S.T. & Ors.
-  Periodic  awareness  campaigns  to  sensitize  guide  and  advise  the  general public  on  man-animal  conflict,  including  dissemination  of  information through various forms of media are undertaken.

As these are ongoing activities by the State Government, no assessments has been carried out by the ministry.

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