Kolkata (KMC) dog licence: apply online, fees and documents
Checked against 4 sources
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) offers a 'Dog Registration' service through its citizen portal1, but the application sits behind a login page, and KMC hasn't published the fee, the documents needed or how long a licence lasts on any public page we could find23. If you can't get past the login, KMC's call centre (1800-345-3375) and WhatsApp (8335988888) are the official numbers to ask4.
- Where to apply
- KMC citizen portal, 'Dog Registration' under Quick Links1
- Help
- KMC call centre 1800-345-3375 (toll-free, Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–5pm); WhatsApp 83359888884
On this page
How to apply, as far as KMC's site shows
- Open KMC's citizen portal home page and look under Quick Links for 'Dog Registration'1.
- The link opens KMC's Dog Licence Application page, which redirects straight to the citizen-portal login screen2. You need to log in, or create a citizen-portal account, before you can see the application form3.
- We could not get past this login screen, so we can't show what the form asks for. If you reach it, note the fee, the documents it wants and how long the licence lasts, since KMC hasn't published these anywhere public.
- If the portal doesn't work for you, call KMC's call centre or WhatsApp number instead and ask for the dog-registration process4.
What KMC hasn't published
- The registration fee.
- Which documents or certificates you need (for example, whether a rabies-vaccination certificate is required, as it is in most other cities' dog licences — compare other cities).
- How long a licence lasts, or how to renew it.
- Any fine for an unregistered dog.
- Which section of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 covers dog licensing; KMC's site cites Section 199 for its trade licence, which is a different service1.
Help
KMC's general call centre is 1800-345-3375 (toll-free, Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–5pm) and WhatsApp 8335988888 4. There is no dog-registration-specific helpline on KMC's site; ask for the Dog Registration or veterinary service by name.
How we checked this
We used only Kolkata Municipal Corporation's own pages: its portal home page, the Dog Licence Application link, the citizen-portal login page and KMC's contact page. We could not reach the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 on India's central law repository to check for a specific dog-licensing section, and West Bengal's state government site had no related page.
Not fully clear yet
Official sources disagree or leave gaps on these. Confirm before you rely on them.
- KMC's 'Dog Registration' service clearly exists (it's linked from Quick Links on the portal home page), but everything past the login — fee, documents, validity, renewal and fines — is inside the citizen-portal account, not on any public page123.
- We don't know whether cats are covered by the same service; KMC's Quick Link names it 'Dog Registration' only1.
- indiacode.nic.in, the central government's law repository, blocked our access when we tried to check the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 for the section governing dog licensing, so we can't cite one here.
- If you have a KMC citizen-portal account and can see the actual application form, the fee and document list it shows would let us correct this page — until then, call KMC to confirm before you go.
Sources and how we check
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