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THE DATA

What is known.
And what is not.

The state of the evidence on India's street animals. Where a figure exists it is cited; where it does not, the gap is named along with whoever holds the number.

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COVERAGE OF THE EVIDENCE ITSELF

Population is published. Almost nothing else is.

Nearly every state has some street-dog population figure, of varying quality and vintage. Sterilisation coverage, the number that decides whether a programme is working, is published for a handful. That asymmetry is the central fact of this field.

35 of 36, states and union territories with a published dog population
2 of 36, states and union territories with published ABC coverage
35 / 36Population published20th Livestock Census (2019), Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying
2 / 36Sterilisation coverage publishedState and municipal disclosures where they exist
40Organisations mappedStrayPaw directory, verified against public presence
THE GAPS, NAMED

Three different kinds of missing.

“No data” hides three separate problems, and they need different fixes. A number nobody ever collected requires fieldwork. A number sitting in a monitoring committee’s returns requires disclosure. A number published only as a city total requires re-release at a usable resolution. Every gap in the register is classified this way.

Where within Delhi are the animals?Published, unusable

Held by: Municipal corporations of Delhi; survey implementing agency
Best available today: One city-wide figure of roughly 10 lakh community dogs.
Resolved by: Release of the survey's block-level counts, or a fresh ward-level census with a documented sampling method.

How many sterilisations did each municipal ABC programme perform?Held, not published

Held by: Municipal corporations; AWBI-recognised ABC centres; state monitoring committees
Best available today: Occasional aggregate claims in press statements, with no verifiable underlying record.
Resolved by: Proactive disclosure of monitoring-committee returns, the data already exists in a reportable form.

What share of Delhi's dogs are vaccinated against rabies?Held, not published

Held by: Bodies running ARV drives, municipal, state and NGO
Best available today: Sterilisation coverage of about 45%, which is not a proxy for vaccination.
Resolved by: A common register across the bodies already counting, or a coverage survey to establish a baseline independently.

Where do animal bites actually happen?Published, unusable

Held by: Hospitals and ARV clinics; NCDC surveillance reporting
Best available today: National and state totals, with a reported-to-modelled death gap of roughly two orders of magnitude.
Resolved by: Geographic release of bite-incidence data at district or ward level, anonymised.

How many animals need treatment in a given year?Never measured

Held by:
Best available today: Nothing published.
Resolved by: A field health-assessment study with a defined case definition and a stated sampling frame.

Do sterilisation gains hold over time?Never measured

Held by:
Best available today: Single-point coverage figures with no follow-up.
Resolved by: Repeat measurement in the same geography on a fixed interval. Cheap relative to the first survey; almost never commissioned.

THE EVIDENCE REGISTER

What is missing, and who has it.

Each open question is listed with the body that holds or would hold the answer, and what it would take to close it. Several are open because the number exists and has not been released, which is a cheaper problem to fix than a missing measurement.

6Open questions in the evidence registerEach with a named holder and a stated route to resolution
4Where the number exists but is unpublishedDisclosure would resolve these without new fieldwork
2Never measured at allThese need funded study work to answer
WHERE TO GO NEXT
State-by-state explorerPopulation, coverage and organisations per state.Cost an interventionTurn any state into a scoped, costed plan.Research standardsHow a question becomes a published result.
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