Introduction

Despite being utterly avertable, canine rabies affects 80, 00,000 people/year in India. Even if rabies represents a big threat to public health, few studies examine the relation of accelerating garbage dumps, stray dog population, and perception of individuals concerning their role within the exploit and unfold of rabies. Information regarding open garbage dumps may cause a public health dilemma within the community and cause stray dog proliferation. Most wastes have a family origin and stray dogs are largely attracted by wastes. The information, besides as attitudes and perception on rabies, is thus vital for the prevention of human deaths and management in animals [1]. The majority, of the people, typically have low information on rabies which must be tackled through stakeholders [2].

Research Methodology

A survey was carried out in Srinagar district to consider the people’s understanding and outlets exercise on rabies and the position of open garbage dumps in the transmission of this disease. Two sources i.e., primary and secondary sources were utilized for identifying the probable factors responsible for increased dog population. These factors primarily included garbage management, specific control measures for dog population by stakeholders and perception of people. The secondary source includes Srinagar Municipal Corporation, for collecting the relevant information [3]. As per Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), the city is divided into two divisions, four zones and 34 administrative wards (Table 1). The four administrative zones are North, South, East, and West. To maximize the diversity of population response, all the four zones were considered for the present investigation. The wards that were selected were shown in the Table 1 with yellow colour. From each randomly selected ward, 20 households were selected as respondents for data collection (accidental sampling). Thus a total of 320 respondents were taken. In addition, 3 commercial respondents from each of selected ward (i.e., 4 wards from each of zone) were asked for their opinion on the subject making a total number of respondents to be 48. The questionnaire designed for this study consisted of closed and a few open-ended questions. It had four parts: waste characteristics and disposal pattern, availing the service, risk factors of rabies transmission, and waste management. These questions had been asked to common person and retailers [4].

Results

The results are being presented under following sub heads:

• Srinagar Municipal Corporation

• Peoples’ perception

Srinagar Municipal Corporation

The municipal body of Srinagar is the Srinagar Municipal Corporation. The SMC is liable for running the civic facilities in the city. Key errands of SMC are to offer water supply services, underground drainage services, sanitation services, solid waste management, development and maintenance of roads, street lights and other required civic facilities to the people staying within municipal boundaries of the city [5]. The commissioner is the chief executive of the municipal corporation. The managerial power of the SMC is vested amid the municipal commissioner and joint commissioners chosen by the government of Jammu and Kashmir. SMC has diverse departments for the effectual running and administration of the functionaries.