On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court of India rejected the pleas filed by animal lover requesting a stay on SC’s order directing the removal of stray dogs from public spaces. Maneka GandhiThe Apex court also said that non-compliance of its order on stray dogs will make officials of municipal bodies and state govt liable for contempt of court.Reacting to the development, former Union Minister and animal rights advocate Maneka Gandhi, says, “Finally the Supreme Court has conceded defeat. Of course, they’re not going to say they are defeated. They’re just going to say, ‘We are closing the case. Now you go and fight it out in the in the 36 high courts’. This is the exact truth: They have conceded defeat.”‘Not a single shelter has been made’Expanding on her remarks, she explains, “On November 22nd, the Supreme Court gave an order which comprised of five things. Number one was to make shelters and Animal Birth Control (ABC) centers. Number two was to remove the dogs from hospitals, remove them from bus stops, remove them from colleges... The Supreme Court had ordered that State Animal Welfare boards should be made. Only one state has made a state animal welfare board, none of the others. Not a single shelter has been made, not a single ABC center has been made. No training for the NGOs has been done. ”She adds, “Not one thing (out of the five) has been done in seven months. No new ABCs, no training for NGOs no infrastructure support. Even in Delhi, not one school or college has removed its dogs because there’s been a strong movement in each of the 54,000 colleges not to remove."“All the hospitals have refused because they said our gates are open... Hundreds of people sit outside and feed animals, so we can’t get rid of them. Bus stops have said there’s no question of removing it. Not a single institution has removed their dogs because there’s nowhere to put them.. They said remove them and put them into shelters. But there are no shelters, so nobody has removed anybody. After all, you take out any dogs from anywhere, where will you put it after removing it,” points out Gandhi.In January, Supreme Court had flagged Maneka Gandhi’s public criticism of its stray dog orders as contemptuous but refrained from initiating proceedings according to Law Beat.Maneka sums up, “So what I’ve been saying since the beginning, which is that they’re non-doable orders, and nobody has followed them is what the SC has acknowledged. And now, if you want to follow the November laws, you go to high courts is what they are saying. Since November, there have been two crore people who have come out against the SC order. Are they going to go against two crore people?"The immediate stepSo, what can be a practical approach to tackle the sitation and what should be the immediate step? Gandhi says, “The immediate and only step is to make more ABC centers, if you have enough ABCs, you don’t even need shelters. And also, train NGOs."