Bhubaneswar, Oct. 14 -- The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has prepared an action plan focusing on vaccination and sterilisation to control the growing population of stray dogs in the state capital.

BMC Commissioner Chanchal Rana informed that special emphasis will be laid on continuing the annual vaccination drive and scaling up the sterilisation process through the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme.

The BMC recently carried out a stray dog census within its jurisdictions from September 18 to 25, conducted in two phases - from September 18 to 21 and from September 22 to 25.

A total of 47,126 stray dogs have been identified across the city, according to BMC data released on Monday.

Out of the total count, 23,047 are mal...