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She led the team of volunteers to a historic victory in 1995 by bringing to an END THE 70-YEAR-OLD PRACTICE OF BRUTAL ELECTROCUTION OF STREET DOGS in Chennai. From 1932 the Corporation of Chennai used to electrocute more than 20,000 pups/ adult dogs annually in the Basin Bridge Lethal Chamber at Pulianthope, Chennai.
She and her team worked tirelessly for two years with the civic authorities in the years 1994-95 finally bringing it to a complete stop in September 1995- thanks to a historic visit/ decision made by then Special Officer of Chennai Corporation Shri Abul Hassan IAS to the lethal chamber on her request.
On the same day of his visit in September 1995 the British practice of electrocution of stray dogs was banned in Chennai. Hence millions of lives of innocent street/community dogs have been saved from the brutal and heart-breaking practice of electrocution to death in the last 30 years.
She again led the team and was instrumental in establishing Chennai’s first MASS ANIMAL BIRTH CONTROL/ IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM for the street dogs in the very same premises of lethal chamber. The PFA conducted a a very successful ABC program under her management - with the Corporation of Chennai- where 8000 to 9000 dogs are sterilized and immunized annually for 20 years until 2014. This very meticulously planned and successful program brought down the incidence of human rabies in the city from 49 persons/ annum in 1995 to nil in 2009 as per the records of the Heath Dept of the Corporation of Chennai. This is turn helped to evoke a state -wide order for the implementation of the Animal Birth Control Program in Tamil Nadu and stop all killing of stray dogs.
When in 2013 the Corporation took back this promises - a new shelter for these dogs- 200 odd dogs - was built in the ABC center at Pulianthope. PFA Trustee Mr Mahipal Solanki has been sponsoring their food for the last 15 years.