India, Aug. 4 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to launch a pilot project for stray dog sterilisation, directing them to set up camps in one ward each in consultation with court-appointed amicus curiae, Gauri Maulekhi.

A bench of justices Dinesh Mehta and Rajneesh Kumar Gupta stressed that the civic bodies must give wide publicity to the camps, including displaying prominent placards in the areas, to reassure residents that the drive is only for sterilisation and not for capturing or sending dogs to pounds (facilities that hold stray, lost, abandoned, or seized dogs).

"The authorities will give prior publicity of this camp in the area and placards shall ...