Overview
- The School Education Department issued statewide guidelines for immediate implementation, naming each principal the campus safety nodal officer for stray-dog monitoring.
- Principals must alert the designated dog-catcher nodal officer of the relevant gram panchayat, janpad panchayat or municipal corporation upon sightings.
- Schools are instructed to install physical barriers to deter entry and to ensure any bite case is taken at once to the nearest health centre for treatment.
- A DPI circular details a reporting format that records dog type, sex, colour, identifying marks and time seen, with oversight by Joint Directors and District Education Officers.
- Opposition leaders and teachers criticized the move as shifting municipal duties to educators, even as BEOs, BRCs, CRCs and School Management Committees were told to enforce compliance.