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.