On 01 September 2025, we filed a Right to Information (RTI) application with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
- RTI Registration Number: MCODH/R/2025/63836
This RTI was filed because Delhi’s stray dog program is at the centre of chaos. After the Supreme Court’s August 2025 orders — first directing mass impoundment of dogs, and later modifying its stance — questions remain unanswered: Where is the money going? Are shelters humane? Are Supreme Court directions being followed?
📑 What the RTI Demands
The application seeks certified copies of records from 2015 to 2025 covering every aspect of MCD’s stray dog management:
1. Budgets & Expenditure
- Year-wise allocations for sterilisation, vaccines, food, shelters, vehicles, and staff salaries.
- Utilisation certificates and audited statements.
- Item-wise cost breakup (sterilisation per dog, vaccine per dose, food per day, transport per trip).
2. Contracts & NGOs
- Complete list of NGOs and contractors hired since 2015.
- Copies of contracts, MoUs, and performance reports.
- Monthly sterilisation/vaccination data per NGO.
- Records of payments, penalties, or blacklisting.
3. Shelter & Transport Conditions
- Intake and release registers (with microchip IDs).
- Records of dog deaths and post-mortems.
- Medicine, vaccine, and food stock registers.
- Photographs, videos, inspection reports of Rohini, Dwarka and other shelters.
- Carcass/bio-waste disposal contracts and vehicle logs.
4. Supreme Court Compliance
- Affidavits and reports filed by MCD before the SC.
- Ward-wise maps of designated feeding zones.
- Records of manpower, vehicles, and facilities allocated for the 8-week sterilisation/impoundment directive.
- Measures taken against illegal relocation of sterilised dogs.
5. Accountability & Oversight
- Names and contact details of officers in charge of ABC centres.
- Minutes of monitoring committees under ABC Rules, 2023.
- Third-party audits, CAG reports, AWBI inspections.
- Disciplinary actions for cruelty, negligence, corruption.
6. Corruption & Misuse of Funds
- Complaints and vigilance inquiries.
- FIRs, investigation reports, whistleblower complaints.
- CVC/CAG/Delhi Govt correspondence on irregularities.
7. Public Health & Rabies
- Records of rabies vaccine purchase, distribution, and administration.
- Dog bite and rabies case data reported by MCD.
- Budgets and reports of awareness campaigns.
8. Right to Inspect
If records are denied, we have demanded digital copies of registers, logs, inspection reports, and CCTV footage (last 90 days).
📌 Why This Matters
This RTI is not just paperwork — it is a citizen’s audit of MCD. It directly asks:
- Where did crores of public funds go?
- Are shelters safe and humane?
- Did MCD really follow the Supreme Court’s orders?
- Who is accountable for failures, corruption, and cruelty?
The answers — or the refusal to answer — will expose the truth.
✊ We will publish MCD’s reply here in full once received.