DISCUSSION
Instead of its preventive probability, rabies prevails a public health dilemma of extreme attention. The condition is alarming in Srinagar where canine rabies has been critically overlooked. In Srinagar, the disease endurance is due to poverty and the rise of the stray dog population. The results show that respondents consider that open garbage dumps are a public health obstacle in the area (chiefly west zone) and commence to stray dogs proliferation. This could be because the area is congested and humans and dogs have frequent contact. This area is the downtown area of Srinagar where streets are populous every time. In this area, people usually throw food on the streets (Fig 6 & 7). The easy availability of food rendered by the scraps in the garbage not only enhances fertility in dogs, but scavenging makes dogs more prone to attack people. Dogs that get free food from the garbage dropped behind by bakeshops, abattoirs don’t see people as providers of food and are major likely to attack them. Most garbage had a household origin and stray dogs were often attracted by fermentable wastes from cooking or lapsed foods. This finding is in agreement with ( Abedi et al., 2017 ; Raymond et al., 2015). A combined rabies control measure coupling dog sterilization, removal of factors that add to dog free-roaming and proliferation must be fulfilled. These combined measures can lead to rabies exclusion for the idea that in Srinagar, dogs are the chief rabies vectors. Therefore, awareness education should be organized, targeting people who are regularly accountable for the conveyor of garbage to dumps; that is, they are more likely to engage stray dogs scavenging for food nearby dumps.
Managing the municipal solid waste is a global confront. In a region like Jammu and Kashmir, the task is further daring given the novel topography and eco-friendly sensibilities. Even if The SMC is working meticulously in the field to guarantee incorporated and scientific solid waste management yet this method needs proper segregation of waste. Municipal authorities find all that an exigent job and that is the conjecture they want to lift all in vehicles and carry it to someplace where they plan to treat it, but this is very exigent because all the conveyed waste is in a blended form. This is mere re-location of garbage moderately than scientific processing.
Till date around 2,000 sterilizations were conducted and also around 2,000 stray dogs were administered the anti-rabies vaccine however this is too less in comparison with the total population of dogs and still, the ballot of dogs from the particular zones of Srinagar is deficient
These actions should be executed by the Srinagar government, which take the plan to boost the number of veterinary hubs all over.
In conclusion, open garbage dumps are a civic health barrier in the Srinagar district plus they instigate to stray dogs explosion. The simple accessibility of chow rendered through the leftovers in the waste does not merely boost fecundity in dogs, however, foraging makes dogs further prone to assail people. Dogs that obtain free food from the waste dropped near the bakeshops, abattoirs don’t see citizens as a source of food plus are apt to assail them. The over-population of dogs is consequently formed as well as sustained by the abundance of possessions humans bestow with, so that it is, in prudence, a ’man-made’ problem. Till date only around 2,000 sterilizations were conducted and also around 2,000 stray dogs were administered the anti-rabies vaccine however this is too less in comparison with the total population of dogs and still, the ballot of dogs from the particular zones of Srinagar is deficient.