India, Jan. 11 -- Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) officials visited potential sites in Sector 105 and Baliawas for setting up two additional stray dog shelters in the district earlier this week, civic officials said.

The nodal officer at MCG, Hariom, said: "Nothing has been finalised yet. We are only assessing potential sites, given the large stray dog population in Gurugram. Although no formal census has been conducted, we estimate that the city has nearly 50,000 stray dogs."

"These two locations belong to the Maa Baglamukhi Sewa Samiti, which is one of the agencies in charge of vaccination and sterilisation of stray dogs in the district along with Vedanta Pvt Ltd," added the nodal officer.

The district currently has one shelt...