The gap is not effort.
It is memory.
Thousands of people already do this work, municipal ABC programmes, rescue groups, vets, residents who feed the same dogs every evening. What none of them share is a record that survives the day it was written.
A dog is treated, released, and becomes anonymous again.
A street dog is caught, sterilised, ear-notched and returned. Six months later a different team, a different NGO, a different ward picks up the same animal and starts from nothing. The notch says a surgery happened; it cannot say when, by whom, with what outcome, or whether the vaccination is still in date.
Multiply that by a city and you have the state of the field: enormous effort, almost no accumulated knowledge. Programmes cannot prove what they achieved, funders cannot tell a working intervention from a busy one, and the same animal is counted, or missed, many times over.
Most of the map has never been looked at.
A district with no sterilisation record is not a district without need. It is a district nobody has surveyed. StrayPaw treats that distinction as a product surface rather than a footnote, because it is where studies get scoped and money gets pointed.
Each gap in the register names the barrier: whether the number was never collected, collected and withheld, or published at a resolution too coarse to act on. Those are three different problems with three different fixes.
Held by Municipal corporations of Delhi; survey implementing agency. Release of the survey's block-level counts, or a fresh ward-level census with a documented sampling method.
Held by Municipal corporations; AWBI-recognised ABC centres; state monitoring committees. Proactive disclosure of monitoring-committee returns, the data already exists in a reportable form.
Held by Bodies running ARV drives, municipal, state and NGO. A common register across the bodies already counting, or a coverage survey to establish a baseline independently.
Held by Hospitals and ARV clinics; NCDC surveillance reporting. Geographic release of bite-incidence data at district or ward level, anonymised.
Nobody holds this. A field health-assessment study with a defined case definition and a stated sampling frame.
Nobody holds this. Repeat measurement in the same geography on a fixed interval. Cheap relative to the first survey; almost never commissioned.
Identity, record, measurement.
Three things: a permanent identity for the animal, a shared record for the people working on it, and a measurement trail, so an intervention can be judged on what changed rather than what was spent.
A permanent code per animal, readable by any ISO-compatible scanner clinics already own. Every record after it attaches to the code, not to a memory or a notebook.
Residents, field teams and municipal sweeps all write to the same map. One animal accumulates one history instead of a dozen disconnected ones.
Coverage becomes a query rather than a survey. What a programme achieved can be checked against what it claimed, at ward resolution.