CHENNAI: The High Court has issued an interim stay on the tender floated for the purchase of microchips for stray dogs.

As per the Supreme Court’s directive, sterilisation of stray dogs and installation of microchips on them is being carried out across the country. Accordingly, the State government has been taking steps to sterilise stray dogs in all districts and implant microchips in them.

For this purpose, the Tamil Nadu Livestock Development Corporation had planned to procure 2.40 lakh microchips. A tender for this was floated from September, and a private company named Exhilar Innovative Solutions was initially selected.

However, the tender was suddenly cancelled, and a re-tender was conducted on November 26, following which another private company was declared selected. Challengi

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