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. 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.