The Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Centre (SGACC) was established in 1980 and is India’s oldest and largest all-animal shelter. At any given time, the SGACC is home to about 3000 animals. It provides room for animals and birds in a secure natural habitat on four acres of tree-covered area in West Delhi’s Raja Garden.  SGACC is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and offers a free animal ambulance service and helpline. Its busy OPD provides medical, diagnostic, and surgical services to over 200 animals per day. It’s part of the local government’s ABC (Animal Birth Control) programme, which sterilises and immunises street canines. It collaborates closely with the authorities to accept and care for animals seized in cruelty instances. It runs a three-times-weekly adoption stand in a mall, where it has put over 2000 Indian puppies in loving homes. This pioneering facility has so flourished under the patronage of Maneka Gandhi, into a well-staffed, well-equipped veterinary centre that is a blessing for animals and their well-wishers.