More than 15,000 snakes were rescued across Telangana last year, with over half being venomous. Data from Friends of Snakes Society show rising snake–human encounters in Hyderabad’s expanding urban areas, especially along the Outer Ring Road.
For the past year or so, the FOSS has been advocating the need to make notification of snake bites mandatory. “By rough estimates, we can say that there are 66,000 snake bite cases annually in India. But we do not have any concrete idea of the exact prevalence of snake bite cases in each State,” says FOSS Secretary Avinash
