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Afghanistan/South Asia
New Delhi: No rat caught in one decade
2005-09-13
Too funny to resist.
NEW DELHI — New Delhi's government has a rat catching department that hasn't caught a single rodent in more than a decade, a newspaper reported yesterday.

There are 97 rat catchers on the municipal payroll, all working for the Rat Surveillance Department, a decades-old agency that last saw a lot of action back in 1994, when a plague outbreak killed 56 people in areas of northwest India near the capital, The Hindustan Times reported. Each rat catcher earns about Rs3,500 a month for catching, but there are no records of any rodents being caught in 10 years.
Mayor Nagin wants these guys to help with disaster planning.
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