Life Of Street Animals In Guwahati And Laws In India!

There are thousands of stray dogs in Guwahati city starving between life and death. The Plights of these dogs are pathetic in the city. They are hungry,...

There are thousands of stray dogs in Guwahati city starving between life and death. The Plights of these dogs are pathetic in the city. They are hungry, abused, and ill and have no place to sleep. In summer they have no respite from the rain and every day a number of dogs are crushed to death by vehicles on the streets of Guwahati.

Being born stray dogs, they always had to fend for themselves. Be it for food or shelter, life has always been a struggle for them during their development from a pup into fully fertile Dogs.

While they were trying to survive on the bits and pieces of food that they could fetch for themselves from garbage and they produce to be 14 pups per year. 14 Pups yearly and 24 pups in 2 years. On average 1 male, 1 female, and their offspring produce up to 67,0000 pups in a period of 6 years. So, the total stray dog population can’t to imagined. Some get crushed under cars, some suffer due to growing up homeless and starving till death, the others are caught by dog traders to transport them to Nagaland and Mizoram for meat.

Some see their partners scavenging for food from the dustbins and being kicked around by people, and beaten. They too are living beings and deserve to live their life in a manner which is Humane.
As animals are part of our cosmos, they are the earlier inhabitants before we humans But see their condition in the so-called modern world, especially Indian dogs, leave apart Assamese.

The cows in the city are eating plastic bags, including dogs and cats. Are the local bodies, GMC, and Railway authorities turning a blind eye towards all these problems? If they are not able to handle the public, why not powers are given to a few younger generations, so that action can be taken by a few dedicated activists, regarding the city dustbin?

Laws related to animals do exist in India, and even if there are such laws, no one seems to be bothered. Going back to the ancient law, talking of nature, the most visible images that come to one’s mind are forest trees and wildlife. The question that is attempted to be answered does the lawgivers of the past were bothered about forests and wildlife.

According to dog cruelty rule 2001, (e) “local authority” means a municipal committee, district board or other authority for the time. These rules may be called the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001 by law with the control and administration of any matters within a specified local area,
Classification of dogs and their Sterilization :

1. All dogs shall be classified into one of the following two categories (i) pet dogs, and (ii) street dogs.
2. The owner of pet dogs shall be responsible for the controlled breeding, immunization, sterilization and licensing in accordance with these rules and the law for the time being in force within a specified local area.
3. The street dogs shall be sterilized and immunized by the participation of animal welfare organizations, private individuals and the local authority And whereas copies of the said Gazette were made available to the public on November 2, 2001;
4. Now, therefore, in the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) (2) of section 38 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules.

Again, Kautilya’s Arthashashtra talked of maintaining wild forests and production forestry, has an elaborate retinue of forest guards and other officials to deal with and manage forests and killing of elephants was dealt with death penalty king hywel dela (880-950) of England made a law that declared the punishment for killing a greyhound the same for killing a person execution John Manhood1592) Compiled the treatise on the forest laws that said all beast,”

The chief justice of the forest had “Absolute authority to determine all offences either in the vest of venison’s” and talked of common pastures/ Forest and described a system of raising the “hue cry of the forest” while a lot more can be written about the chief justice of Eyre (A system axis to what is the institution of the national green tribunal in modern India today it suffices to say that England had very elaborate laws of the forest (And one of the oldest written law in the world.) However, it would be pertinent to mention that as the king tightened his grid on the forests of the country and brought forests of the country) and brought more & more land under the control of the state in the name of the forest, a silent revolution started to brew that resulted in the signing of the magna carta a charter that allowed more freedom and better access of the forest resources.

The laws/ oriented part of the article is extracted from a special publication of the eastern zone released on the occasion of the eastern regional conference held on no 9th & 10th September 2017 in Guwahati, Assam.
With the hope to improve the condition of animals in the so-called humane world and strict laws to be implemented to reduce the coexistence of animals in a humane society, I pin down my pen.