Students of a college in the western suburbs and a Non-Governmental Organisation working with animals and others have started a campaign to put reflective collars on stray dogs across Mumbai. They intend to collar 2,000 canines in the next six weeks with an aim to alert speeding vehicles to the presence of dogs on roads. This move will help prevent accidents.

This is a good initiative and one more step in resolving the stray animal and citizen conflict that we are seeing, reading or hearing more about in recent days. We have seen pitched battles go right to the courtroom when it comes to strays and the citizenry. While these may not just be about accidents on roads, many of these are about feeding strays, any initiative that makes the city safer is welcome.