Animal Welfare, IIT Kgp

16/09/2023

Dear All,

The Animal Welfare Group at IIT Kharagpur is going to organize an anti-rabies vaccination drive for the stray animals residing on our campus. The inauguration event is scheduled for tomorrow (17th of September 2023), at the Gymkhana foyer, commencing at 11 am. We are honored to have the Registrar of IIT Kharagpur as our esteemed chief guest for this event. The program will be overseen by Professor Sudeshna Koley, the NSS coordinator at IIT Kharagpur.

We extend a warm invitation to each and every one of you to join us in making this event a resounding success. Let us work together to promote the health and well-being of both our campus community and our beloved furry companions.

-Thanking you,
Animal Welfare Group
IIT Kharagpur

15/04/2023

CALL FOR DONATION
Since February 2023, we have lost more than 15 dogs across our IIT-Kharagpur campus to Canine Distemper and Parvo. Some succumbed after prolonged treatment while few others could not be attended to on time. As a wake-up call, we looked for best deals on the DHPPi vaccine available in the region. We could secure them for INR 230 per vaccine. We have received the first batch of vaccines and SNVH, Academic Area, MMM, MT, etc have been covered while other areas are being covered every evening. We have over 100 dogs in our list already and have to vaccinate every additional dog found inside campus. In addition to vaccine, all dogs are necessarily being administered with liver tonic and then dewormed. Then there are 16 dogs in MMM who are on meds for preliminary-mild symptoms of CD. Momma doggy of SupDup is paralysed from CD and under active treatment through IV. One dog at SNVH will be put on chemo soon as well.
All of it is made possible through donations received from members of the campus community. To continue our efforts to vaccinate, feed, treat and care for our animals, we have to raise more money. Hence, the call for donations via this medium, with the hope to reach out to more persons.
Any amount you would like to donate can be sent via GPay to 9435510628. This account belongs to one of our student members and is being managed by 3 of us. Receipt and expenditure are updated in a MS-Excel sheet everyday and is shared weekly.

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18/03/2023

Love, compassion and fur-filled fun! Animal Welfare, IIT Kgp, organized an unforgettable event on 14th March, bringing together animal lovers from all over KGP campus. The Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Initiative was a grand celebration of the bond between humans and domestic animals, highlighting the emotional, psychological and physical interactions that have existed for thousands of years.

Our lovely furry friends Kuku, Shibu, Coco, Bruno, Hancock, Simba and Choco, the stars of the evening, stole our hearts with their adorable poses during the photoshoot. The event featured a wide range of activities, from poster presentations on ongoing sterilization and vaccination drives for stray animals to panel discussions on adopting strays. Our guests of honor, including Prof. Koel Chowdhury (Associate Dean SA), Prof. Sudheshna Koley, Mrs. Mitali Banerjee, and Dr. Prasanta Kumar Sannigrahi (Head of B.C.Roy Technology Hospital) graced the occasion with their presence and shared their invaluable insights and words of love, kindness and affection for stray animals.

The enthusiastic youths of the Animal Welfare Group made the whole event a grand success, spreading a bag of happiness to all the participants.Thanks a lot to Click Kgp and everyone who helped for capturing all these beautiful moments and making them last forever. Stay tuned to our social handles for updates on our upcoming events.

12/03/2023

Join us and enjoy a stress-free evening with the puppers and kittens ❤❤

09/07/2022

Dear all, two friends of our animal welfare community found 3 abandoned kittens. They both are fostering them at the moment. But with so many dogs in the campus, it is very difficult to keep them safe. If you know anyone who will be able to help the kittens and adopt them, please let us know. Even if there is any safe place where they can be relocated and fed, it will be really helpful. In case you don't,kindly spread the word. These kittens are in urgent need for adoption.

27/04/2021

Hope you all are doing well in these testing times. The second wave of COVID-19 has hit us hard precisely at the time when we were hoping for the nightmare to finally conclude.

As many of you might be aware, Animal Welfare Group, formed by some animal loving faculties ,their families , staff members and students from our campus, is actively feeding campus stray animals tirelessly from 21st June , 2020. It has been a humongous effort by every member of the team to bring a smile to the faces of our voiceless friends out there. We are extremely grateful to our members who helped us continuously for the last 10 months with every kind of support we needed.
Right now, we are facing a huge shortage of fund as we are forcefully extending this project beyond the timeline we expected. Currently the program requires INR 3000 per day to feed all the campus strays two times a day. A small contribution from your end can mean a lot to us.

Link for Donations: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

14/11/2020

Three things to learn from an Animal.

- They know no barriers.
- They live in the moment.
- They love selflessly.

This diwali bring smile to our voiceless friends by sponsoring their daily meals.
One day's meal costs us 2000 rupees, For one animal it is 200 rupees per month.

Please donate and bring joy to the children of God.

Donation link: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

11/11/2020

Lunch time today ..
We need more donations to keep them happy and healthy..
Please donate and share the posts 🤗

Donation Link: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

To know more please inbox or whatsapp 9474153891.

09/11/2020

Hello everyone,

This is an urgent communication about our furry friends on campus. We have been trying and feeding them from 21st June, 2020. It has been great journey altogether, watching them wag their tails when the feeding van reached them made our day beautiful. It was the excellent support that we got from the community , that helped us help our best friends in campus.
But now we are completely running out of funds. We need your help to feed them , they are waiting for food everyday at noon. The lockdown in campus has made them completely dependent on us.
We would like to thank Dr. Seema Singh for taking care of the dinner of our friends. Now we are able to feed them twice in a day.
Please help us by sharing this among your peers and please donate as much as you can.

Donation link: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

21/09/2020

Hello everyone!!

Our feeding program completed three months today. Now we are starting the phase four of our feeding program. We are grateful to everyone for their support and blessings. The expenses and contributions are shared here in tabular form for your reference. Total ₹ 1,13,250 was spent this month.

Link for donations:
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

Keep supporting us by spreading the word among your peers.
Thank you.

14/09/2020

Henlo hoomans,

When we heard our hoomans are leaving the campus due to lockdown ,we got scared because there would be no food and no one to play with us or to take care of us but you all made our fear go away by donating to Project Annapoorna. The awesome faculty and staff members , their friends and family, our student friends are taking great care of us. We are getting yummy food now but we heard that our friends are running out of money real fast. We are totally dependent on your donation for our food .Please donate as much as you can and don't worry about your hostel rooms, we will be guarding them in your absence. Friends we are already missing you in campus hope you return soon so we could have fun together.

This is the donation link: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

From
your happy furry friends

13/09/2020

As a consequence of the evacuation of students from the IIT Kharagpur campus following the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Animal Welfare Group (AWG), IIT Kharagpur, with the help of the animal lover faculty members and campus residents initiated the campus stray animals feeding program to feed the 200+ dogs and cats residing in our campus.
The objective of the feeding program is to ensure a one-time full meal to animals every day. In order to make this happen, we procure 37 kg of cooked chicken (+ egg) rice from the Heritage restaurant and a dedicated team of animal lovers ensures that all the animals in 24 halls of residence, gymkhana, and three academic zones (central zone, Takshashila and Law School and Tetultala) of our campus are being fed daily.
The costs are covered by the generous contribution from the faculty and staff members and their family, friends, students, alumni members, and funds raised from AWG’s official Milaap fundraiser, dedicated to this project. Till now a total of 284,000 rupees has been spent on the project.
The feeding program started on the 20th of June, 2020 and we have managed to cover the expenses incurred in two phases, till August, 2020. The total expenses in the first phase (June 20 to 2020 to July 20, 2020) of the project were Rs. 116,000 and in the second phase (July 21, 2020, to August 20, 2020) was Rs. 114,000.
The expenses for the third phase (August 21, 2020, to September 20, 2020) sum up to Rs. 110,000 and we have been able to pay Rs. 54000 to date (13th September 2020) and still facing a deficit of approx. Rs. 31000 for the third phase alone. It is expected that campus will be closed for students at least until the end of this calendar year, and our feeding project is to be continued in three more phases in order to prevent our campus stray animals from starving to death. This is possible only and only through your generous contribution and support like you have supported us to date.
Please use the following link to our official fundraiser (Milaap) in order to contribute to the campus stray animals feeding program run by the AWG, IIT Kharagpur.
Link for the fundraiser: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700
A detailed split of the contribution and expenses incurred till date are summarized in the spreadsheet attached below.

Edit: the expenditure details of phase three is updated on a later post on our fb Page
Post link: https://www.facebook.com/100655715017684/posts/176843420732246/

12/09/2020

Hello everyone,

The feeding program is going on beautifully with the Allmighty's grace and your well wishes. Till now we have completed two months and the feeding for third month is underway. This month we have faced a lot of problems like increasing covid infections in our campus but our administration gave us special permission to carry out feeding operations with necessary measures taken to minimize chance of infection.
Till now our core members have been our pillar of strength during the hard times. Now we have serious scarcity of funds going on. So we humbly request you to come forward and donate generously through our fundraiser platform in Milaap. You will be happy to know that Milaap has lifted their platform fees on our fundraiser. Please support us to further carry out our feeding program till situation normalises.
This is the link to our fundraiser:
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-stray-animals-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraisers-title&mlp_referrer_id=3076700

Please share this post and be the voice of our furry friends.

We are a group of animal lovers of IIT Kharagpur. We have formed this group of like-minded students & residents to take up certain animal care initiatives. So far, we have helped out many injured voiceless animals and took care of their treatments. Please do share and contribute.

03/09/2020

Hello everyone!!

Hope you all are fine in this pandemic situation. It fills our heart with immense joy to share with you that another month has passed in our venture to feed and care for the distressed furry friends of our campus. We have had a wonderful experience for last couple of months, catering to the needs of these voiceless friends. We are really grateful to have the animal lover faculty, staff members, their families and the students by our side who worked tirelessly to gather funds and went to accompany the feeding team everyday only out of their love for the animals. We want to thank everyone who were on the daily feeding duty and the heritage restaurant to make this project a success. We thank everyone from the below list for their selfless service to the cause.

Faculties, staff members and their families:

Prof. Pallab Dasgupta and Mrs. Sagarika Dasgupta
Prof. Anindya Ghosh and Mrs. Apala Sarkar Ghosh
Prof. Baidurya Bhattacharya
Prof. Shampa Aich
Prof. Koel Choudhury
Ms. Chandana Chakraborty
Prof. P Patnaik and Mrs. Arundhati Patnaik
Prof. Anuradha Choudry
Prof. Seema Singh
Mrs. Kajol Bhattacharyya
Mrs. Mitali Bandopadhyay
Anonymous animal lover family

Students:

Vagish Pandey
Naveen Joshi
Monidipa Sengupta
Anbu Vasant
Animesh Bhowmik
Mouli Chattoraj
Indrasis Mitra
Kewal Bajaj
Rajat Kamboj
And many more

Feeding team led by Ramkrishna Dey

Heritage restaurant staffs and Gautam Paira (owner)

Also we thank each and every donors who donated heartily to the project and made this dream come true. We are releasing the list of donors who donated directly to our project and through milaap, we are forever indebted to these amazing people.

You will be amazed to know that till now around two lakh and eighty thousand Rupees were raised through different modes , more than ninety percent of it came through personal contributions of the faculties and staff members, and their friends and families.

The cost of the project is almost 1.2 lakh per month and already around 2.5 lakh is spent. The feeding is still going on with 40 kgs of delicious Rice, chicken and egg mixture outsourced from Heritage restaurant. The feeding team ensures all the four legged friends from 21 halls of residence, gymkhana, hospital, takshashila, tech market and dreamland area are well fed everyday. You will be happy to know that despite the adverse weather and spread of infection the feeding team is doing their job relentlessly with necessary health and hygiene precautions.

We have come a long way and need your continuous support to take this noble cause forward till situation becomes normal and students come back to our campus.

15/07/2020

Almost 25 days have passed since the campus has been evacuated after the end of academic session. It was the fruit of tireless efforts of a wonderful team consisting of animal loving faculty members,residents, students, distributors and Heritage that the animals in our campus didn't go to bed unfed a single night since that.

The group also thanks each and every well wishers, without whose wishes the whole dream wouldn't have been possible.

Still we have a long way to go to ensure that these helpless animals do not lose hope on us.

Please contribute to sustain this project though the links in the comment section and spread the word with your peers.

Here are some pics of our happy dogs and cats who are thanking you all for your support.

09/07/2020

Hello Everyone,
As we all know, Covid-19 pandemic followed by national lockdown and untimely closure of our IIT campus has devastated the lives of our four-legged friends. Recently, the entire campus was evacuated, all messes were closed and only a handful of students are still on campus now. This has further worsened the condition of our campus stray dogs and cats, as the ONLY option for their food- the leftovers of mess food is no more available to them.
But we were determined to help our dearest stray friends. We could not just let them die in thirst and hunger. With the unconditional love and support from our Animal Welfare Team, we reached out to some of the animal lover faculty members of our institute. This led to the formation of a strong core team of over 12 animal lover faculty members, staff and their families who came forward to help us feed the campus stray animals. It was a dream-come-true situation for every animal lover of our institute.
We are happy o share that a very dedicated team of campus residents of IIT Kharagpur have initiated a dream project of feeding the campus strays. About 35 kg of chicken rice is outsourced from the Heritage restaurant and over 200 dogs and cats in the 21 halls of residences, gymkhana, tech market, dreamland/ sahara and academic zone are being fed tummy-full every day. There can be no reason bigger than this for an animal lover to feel happy, content and satisfied.
The entire project costs about 1.35 lakhs to cook the food, and distribute across the campus. Currently, this is kick-started by our beloved faculty members, each one of them have promised to commit for a regular donation of certain amount of money. Not just that, they are also reaching out to their friends and colleagues for donations and striving very hard to keep this project going. We are trying our best to reach out to all the animal lovers to make up for the shortage.
There is a high chance that the campus will be closed for students till the end of December 2020, and in that case, we desperately need to continue feeding the campus strays for at least six months more!! Without a stable source of funds, this is impossible to sustain the feeding project and we are afraid that it might stop by the end of this very month.
The campus strays are our friends- our family- who ate, played and slept with us, showered us with their unconditional love and attachment, the poor ones, whom we helplessly left behind due to unprecedented conditions. And now, if we don’t come forward to help our four-legged friends survive, they will only die of hunger.
But we will do everything to keep this project going.
We are also happy to share that a part of this money will be paid to the distribution team, who tirelessly feed in all the 21 halls of residences and market areas with a smiling face. They are all daily wagers and temporary staff of the institute, whose primary source of income is now stopped due to closure of the campus. So, by contributing to the stray animal feeding project, we are also helping in creating the employment opportunity for the Covid victims of our institute.
Thus it is a humble appeal to the everyone to kindly donate and help us serve our four-legged friends, one full meal a day.

Yours Sincerely,
Animal Welfare Team
IIT Kharagpur

We are a group of animal lovers of IIT Kharagpur. We have formed this group of like-minded students & residents to take up certain animal care initiatives. So far, we have helped out many injured voiceless animals and took care of their treatments. Our IIT campus is home to about five hundred dogs

27/06/2020

Hello everyone!!

It has been a long time since our last post regarding the help that Angel required and we have been unable to provide any updates on her situation since then. This was due to the reason that the animal loving students staying back on campus were busy with the task of feeding the dogs and cats who have been left helpless and hungry after the evacuation of halls on 20th June.

However Angel is doing fine for the time being and her health has recovered quite a bit.

We were able to meet our fundraising goal from the donations provided by our wonderful friends with beautiful souls. With the rapid response to our plea for help, we managed to take Angel to the vet clinic where the doctor prescribed a combination of medicines for the duration of a week and Chemotherapy Injections that were to be administered weekly for a period of 8 weeks.

She completed her medicine dosage with help of her human friends and is waiting for the chemotherapy to start.

As the campus has been vacated now and very few of us have been able to stay back to help these innocent souls, it has become practically impossible for us to give her the required chemo shots every week while she is in the campus. It has also been seen that she is very fearful of humans and to add to that we also have a tremendous lack of manpower on our side which is why it has become incredibly difficult for us to feed and take good care of her while she's staying in the campus.

We are going to transfer her to an animal shelter in Kolkata by this week where they'll provide her with the required medication and feed her properly also.

Stay tuned to this page for more updates on the lovely soul Angel.

22/06/2020

This is to inform you all that our society is still actively operating on campus and discussion is on progress for stray animals feeding activity with authority, faculty members and animal lovers of IIT Kharagpur. We have raised the concern to authority and expecting positive response soon. However, as most of our student members had to leave campus , we are in dire need of volunteers for daily activities. So, if you're in campus or know someone who can volunteer for campus activity please contact us. You can DM us and we will contact you. Alternatively, you can contact our student representative Naveen Joshi (+91 9986185602).

07/06/2020

Help us save Angel and other animals that have made the campus of IIT- Kharagpur their home.

Angel, a sweet stray dog is diagnosed with the painful, Transmissible Veneral Tumour (TVT), which causes great pain and discomfort along with troubled bowel movements. This has forced the poor animal to stop eating. Further, her extreme fear for humans and other dogs has made matters further worse and she is beginning to give up on life.

She requires immediate medical care without which we won't be able to save her.

Angel’s boarding and medical expenses would cost us around ₹ 20,000.

Likewise, there are about a hundred dogs and fifty cats that inhabit the IIT Kharagpur campus and their condition is not very good as well. Most of these strays are either malnourished or injured and require regular feeding, medical attention and vaccination. The nationwide lockdown has further added to their troubles, with no regular access to food and water.

The feeding, medicine and annual vaccination of the campus strays would cost about ₹ 30,000.

You can help angel and other helpless strays through your generous contributions.

We, the members of tbe Animal Welfare Group, IIT Kharagpur humbly request you to donate generously for this cause and share this message among your friends/ family and acquaintance and help us raise. ₹ 50,000. Your contribution could help us lend voice to the voiceless animals, so they can lead the happy life they deserve.

Contributions can be made through Bank transfer/ UPI.

For amount transfer through NEFT/ RTGS etc.:
Name: Soumyadip Dutta
Account number: 33465215877
Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: SBIN0000122
Branch: Krishnagar

For amount transfer through UPI (PayTM, PhonePe, GooglePay): 9474153891
UPI ID: soumyadip909@okhdfcbank

The details regarding the funds raised and the expenditure can be found in the following google spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zq-QHI6YUDWz-sIc9PmSwAyn_3CCCN6NJ0FGZ_1FYtQ/edit?usp=sharing

Please share this post and support us. We sincerely thank you for your contribution in advance.

Best Wishes.

Animal Welfare Group
IIT Kharagpur

07/06/2020

Hi all hoomans,
My name is Alpha , I am a resident of MMM hall of residence. Though sometimes I become very naughty and annoying , my hooman friends take really good care of me. Those hoomans are too dumb. They think that I can only look around for food and lay down here and there , but see I can post my picture on this awesome page. Please like and share this page and also my cute picture

03/06/2020

This is a heart-warming post shared by our fellow IITian Akshay. We congratulate him for his inspiring work and wish Bageera good health.
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This is Bageera!! He had extreme skin disease and infection when he started coming to my home for food. With proper food and water his body started healing and present condition is nothing but a second life for him. He is grateful and also scares the s**t out of everyone else during night. But he knows he is a good boyy!