.-The committee constituted under rule 4 shall be responsible for planning and management of dog control programme in accordance with these rules. The committee may:-
- issue instructions for catching, transportation, sheltering, sterilisation, vaccination, treatment and release of sterilised vaccinated or treated dogs;
- authorise veterinary doctor to decide on case to case basis the need to put to sleep critically ill or fatally injured or rabid dogs in a painless method by using sodium pentathol. Any other method is strictly prohibited;
- create public awareness, solicit co-operation and funding;
- provide guidelines to pet dog owners and commercial breeders from time to time;
- get a survey done of the number of street dogs by an independent agency;
- take such steps for monitoring the dog bite cases to ascertain the reasons of dog bite, the area where it took place and whether it was from a stray or a pet dog;
- Keep a watch on the national and international development in the field of research pertaining to street dogs' control and management, development of vaccines and cost effective methods of sterilisation, vaccination, etc.