Animal Birth Control and Anti Rabies programme: (ABC-AR Program)          
Animal Welfare Board of India in the year 2010 took up the execution of Animal Birth Control program for Stray dogs on a national scale through Local Animal Welfare Organizations, Municipalities, NGO’s, etc. with two objectives:
i)   To end the presence of stray dogs on roads and public places.
ii) To free India from the incidences of rabies by 2020.