The Pune Municipal Corporation has vaccinated 116,363 stray dogs between April and August of the 2025-26 financial year as part of its rabies-prevention measures, while launching a special citywide campaign to improve public awareness about the disease and precautions after dog bites.
The campaign was initiated around World Rabies Day under the theme “Stronger Together”. The civic administration’s veterinary department said the vaccination figures covered the first five months of the current financial year. The campaign also seeks to inform residents about rabies prevention, the importance of vaccinating dogs and the steps to take after a dog bite.
The municipal administration began the drive from the Pune Municipal Corporation building. One vehicle has been assigned to each of the civic body’s 15 regional offices to support the vaccination of stray dogs across the city. Veterinary officers and the required vaccines have been arranged for the operation, according to the civic health administration.
Alongside the vaccination vehicles, the PMC has deployed two digital vehicles for public awareness activities and five inspection vehicles. Five additional vehicles have been assigned to address complaints received from citizens. The arrangement creates separate operational channels for vaccination, field inspection, communication and complaint redressal during the campaign.
Rabies prevention in an urban setting depends on both animal vaccination and public response after possible exposure. The PMC’s campaign therefore combines field vaccination with information for residents on the disease and precautions after a dog bite. The civic body has not provided, in the information released, a ward-wise breakup of the 116,363 vaccinations or details of the number of dogs that remain to be covered.
The deployment across all 15 regional offices places the campaign within the PMC’s existing administrative structure rather than limiting it to a single central operation. Regional vehicles are intended to take the vaccination effort closer to neighbourhoods, while the inspection and complaint vehicles are expected to support field-level responses to citizen reports.
The civic administration has also not disclosed the campaign’s total financial allocation, the number of personnel assigned to each vehicle or the method being used to assess vaccination coverage. The figures released establish the scale of work completed between April and August, but do not indicate how the reported vaccinations compare with the city’s total stray-dog population.
The PMC said the awareness activities would focus on rabies prevention and precautions following dog bites. The vaccination campaign and the associated public-information work are being implemented through the veterinary department, with the regional offices and designated vehicles supporting operations across Pune.
Source: https://urbanacres.in/pune-stray-dog-vaccination-crosses-1-16-lakh-in-pmc-drive/