IIT Madras confirms that 30% of dogs held captive on campus died in one year

On Sunday, Health Minister Ma. Subramanian inspected the dog shelter on the campus; the institution claimed its main reason for confining the dogs was that they posed a threat to the deer

A total of 56 (or 30%) of the 188 stray dogs confined in the dog shelter at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) campus have died in the past one year, the IIT-M administration confirmed to the Tamil Nadu Health and Family Welfare Minister Ma. Subramanian on Sunday.

Mr. Subramanian, who inspected the shelter following complaints of a high number of deaths, quoted the administration as saying that another 29 were given up for adoption, 14 were let out as they were not aggressive and two had escaped. He said that the administration was asked to furnish details on the 29 dogs that were adopted.