Archive · 23 Aug 2026
Chennai Opens Rs 7.87-Crore Centre for Dog Sterilisation and Care
Chennai has opened a new centre to help care for dogs.
The centre cost Rs 7.87 crore to build.
It has a veterinary hospital, operation theatres, a pharmacy and rooms for recovering animals.
Workers currently sterilise about 200 stray dogs each day.
The new centre and three others being built could increase this to 350-400 surgeries daily.
Chennai also has several other Animal Birth Control centres.
Shelters are being built for dogs that have diseases.
Officials want all stray dogs and pets to receive rabies vaccinations and want pet licences to be issued faster.
The Greater Chennai Corporation inaugurated a Rs 7.87-crore dog sterilisation centre and veterinary hospital in Nandambakkam.
The facility, built over 1,408 square metres, includes two operation theatres, a pharmacy and laboratory.
The Corporation currently sterilises about 200 stray dogs daily and aims to raise capacity to 350-400.
Three additional Animal Birth Control centres are under construction at Athipattu, Velachery and Sholinganallur.
The GCC plans to vaccinate stray dogs and pets against rabies and speed up pet-owner licensing.
- Who
- The Greater Chennai Corporation, with Alandur MLA M. Harish inaugurating the facility.
- What
- A dog sterilisation centre and veterinary hospital was inaugurated.
- When
- Saturday.
- Where
- MGR Road in Ward 158, Nandambakkam, in Chennai’s Alandur Zone.
- Why
- To control the stray dog population, prevent rabies and provide veterinary care.
- Project cost
- Rs 7.87 crore
- Facility size
- 1,408 square metres
- Current sterilisation capacity
- About 200 stray dogs per day
- Planned capacity
- About 350-400 surgeries per day
- Existing ABC centres
- The GCC currently operates 11 Animal Birth Control centres
- Additional centres
- Three are under construction at Athipattu, Velachery and the Bio-CNG plant area in Sholinganallur
- Disease shelters
- Shelters accommodating 250 diseased dogs each are being built at Manali and Perungudi