Marked increase of dogs in the IIT Campus

By Kaveri Murthy

There is a marked increase in the number of dogs in the IIT-Madras campus.
Their main target is the spotted deer and the blackbuck, the two varieties of deer on this campus. The dogs are not much of a bother to the spotted deer as they defend themselves fairly well. However the blackbucks are extremely delicate creatures and the dogs pose a great danger to them.

Some campus residents say that the main reason for the presence of a large number of dogs is that because checks are not kept on the entry of dogs through the IIT gates.
There are four gates to the IIT campus - the two main gates opening out to the Sardar Patel Road, the Taramani gate and the Velachery gate. Dogs enter freely through them.

Some suggestions given by the Prakriti Wildlife Club of the IIT campus are that there should be checks at all the gates and this must be the responsibility of the security guards stationed there.
Another suggestion is that the dogs in the campus should be rounded up and sent to animal shelters.