Delhi ragpicker feeds and takes care of 400 dogs daily :- 61-year-old Pratima Devi, a ragpicker, looks after over 400 dogs - about 200 around her home in a shanty in south Delhi.
Adjacent to the PVR Anupam miltiplex in south Delhi's Saket neighbourhood stands a tin shack on wooden slabs and decorated with a few torn rugs. In and around this shanty, stray dogs can be seen walking around like disciples of a holy saint.
Stray dogs in Delhi. (Image used for representation purpose only)
The shanty belongs to Pratima Devi, who looks older than her 61 years. She has lived here for more than three decades and is a ragpicker. Better known as Amma in the neighbourhood, she earns only to look after hundreds of dogs in the locality.
"I look after over 400 dogs - about 200 around my home. Others are scattered in the courtyard of the PVR complex up to J-block (a little over half a kilometre away). My dogs never bite. They have been sterilised and vaccinated by the MCD (civic body)," Pratima said.
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