Planning / scoping tool
What would it take?
Pick a state and an objective. This turns it into the numbers a funder and an executing partner both need: how many animals, what it costs, how long it runs. Every figure is sourced, and where a state has published nothing the tool says so rather than filling the gap.
What would it take to reach the coverage target?
No published coverage baseline exists for Uttar Pradesh. No Animal Birth Control coverage figure has been published for this state. This plan therefore assumes zero coverage — a ceiling, not an estimate. Establishing the real baseline is itself a study.
Animals to sterilise1,63,333to move coverage 0% → 70% across 2,33,333 animals
Cost₹27 Cr₹1,650 per animal
Time315 moat 2 teams in the field
Every number above, and where it comes from
- Population. 28,00,000 community dogs across Uttar Pradesh, scaled to the scope you picked. NAPRE state-level reporting and DAHD estimates (2024-2025), supplemented by municipal surveys where available (2025).
- Current coverage. Not published. Assumed zero, which makes this figure an upper bound.
- Target. 70%. WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies, third report (TRS 1012) — 70% vaccination coverage threshold for canine-mediated rabies elimination.
- Unit cost. ₹1,650 per animal. Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2023 — AWBI-notified per-surgery reimbursement ceiling (2023).
- Scope. Your input, not a finding. No state publishes a ward-level distribution, so this tool cannot tell you which part of Uttar Pradesh needs it most — only what a given share costs.
Next step
Turn the scope into a geography
The cost above is defensible. The where is not, and no amount of arithmetic fixes that — it takes fieldwork. A funded study establishes the ward-level baseline, and the same calculation then points at a real place.