Pet cremation in India, city by city: 19 municipal and institutional facilities and plots in 13 cities, what each charges from nothing to Rs 3,000, what it took to build them, how many animals they take, and the rules that say a local authority must have one

Pet cremation in India: the facilities on one page

Thirteen cities, nineteen rows, and a fee that runs from nothing to Rs 3,000 for the same service. The table below is the dataset in brief; the rest of this report takes the cities one at a time.

Three things stand out in the table. The service is ten years old in Bengaluru and under a year old in half the cities that have it DeshGujarat, 'Ahmedabad Gets Gujarat's…; the fee has no relation to the cost of the fire, since the two free facilities and the Rs 3,000 one burn the same gas ThePrint (PTI), 'Jamshedpur gets eastern…; and the cities that have not built, which is most of India, are breaking a rule that has been in force since March 2023.

The rules: an incinerator the local authority must install, a carcass that must be burned above 850 degrees, and a state that ordered every civic body to build

There is no law on pet cremation as such. There are three documents that, read together, oblige a city to have somewhere to burn an animal.

The Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 list, among the obligations of the local authority, 'incinerators to be installed by the local authority for disposal of organs and carcasses and where an incinerator is not feasible, deep burial method may be adopted', and rule 16(7) says 'the carcasses of dogs that are suspected to have died of rabies shall be disposed of in an incinerator or adopting any other method as provided by the Chief Veterinary Officer of the District'. The rules are about street dogs and the Animal Birth Control centres that sterilise them, so the incinerator they require is the one most municipal pet crematoria are built beside: Delhi's at the Dwarka sterilisation centre, Hyderabad's and Ahmedabad's at their animal care centres, Mumbai's Malad unit at the dog pound The News Minute, 'GHMC builds pet… DeshGujarat, 'Ahmedabad Gets Gujarat's… Free Press Journal.

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying's guidelines on disposal of animal carcass and disinfection, issued as K-11/15/2023-LH, define the method: 'Incineration is thermal destruction of carcass by using high-temperature (>850°C)', to be 'practiced only on-site', at a site 'at least two hundred fifty meters away from human habitat', by fixed whole-carcass, mobile air-curtain or municipal incinerators; carcasses are 'preferably incinerated, otherwise burned in pits or buried'. Ahmedabad's machine runs at 800 to 900 degrees; Faridabad's furnace is described as reaching 800.

Maharashtra's circular and Mumbai's High Court

In April 2025 the Maharashtra government directed every municipal corporation, municipal council and nagar panchayat in the state to develop cremation grounds for pets and animals, to provide the space near dumping grounds with a compound wall and security, to cremate 'cows, cats, dogs, and white mice' with proper care, to stop carcasses being dumped anywhere else, and to levy a charge if they wished, with no timeline. Two months later the Bombay High Court took suo motu cognisance of a report on Mumbai's delayed Deonar facility and on 9 July 2025 gave the corporation two weeks to file an affidavit; Deonar and Mahalaxmi were declared operational from 1 April 2026. Pune, in the same state, has had its incinerator since 2019, and Nagpur's corporation resolved on 23 May 2023 to build an animal crematorium at Bhandewadi, sanctioned at Rs 3.50 crore and revised to Rs 9.50 crore, which had not opened when an NGO's unit became the city's first in 2026.

City by city: who runs each facility, what it burns, and what it charges

Thirteen operating crematoria, Kolkata's burial ground, four facilities not yet open and one whose status is unreported, read from the documents that announced, inspected or priced them.

Mumbai: three facilities, one free, two on a licence

The BMC inaugurated its first pet crematorium at the Evershine Nagar cattle and dog pound in Malad West in September 2023: a 50-kilogram-an-hour PNG incinerator, free of charge, open 10 am to 6 pm daily, for pets with an owner's address proof, under a Rs 17 crore contract for three units with five years of operation. Deonar, on PNG for animals up to 500 kilograms, and Mahalaxmi, electric for animals up to 50, were declared operational from 1 April 2026, offered as eco-friendly last rites with online booking on the Veterinary Health Department's portal and a helpline; the corporation had told the High Court in July 2025 that Mahalaxmi was already functional. The booking page's terms make the licence the key: 'in the case of pet animals (dog) a municipal licence is required', a stray needs a death certificate from a registered vet at a sterilisation centre, and a citizen bringing a stray dog, cat or small animal shows one photo ID and one address proof. Bonbeno's Mumbai report has the licence.

Delhi: Rs 2,000 or Rs 3,000 by weight, 120 to 180 a month

The MCD's Furry Friends Forever Memorial Park and Crematorium at Dwarka Sector 29 began operations in December 2023: a CNG centre of 700 square metres with furnaces rated for 200 and 150 kilograms, a designed capacity of 25 a day, 10 private pets and 15 small street animals, 'operational at a modest cost of Rs one crore' and run with the Green Revolution Foundation, which hires the priest and keeps the memory garden. The rates are 'Rs 2,000 for animals weighing under 30kg and Rs 3,000 for more', against private crematoria in the city charging Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000; by August 2026 it was handling 'between 120 and 180 cremations a month', pets and strays together, with the strays free. Bonbeno's Delhi report sets it beside the city's one sterilisation-centre network.

Hyderabad: an NGO's incinerator in the corporation's building, at the NGO's price

The pet crematorium at the GHMC animal care centre in Fathullaguda, near Nagole, cost about Rs 1 crore, the corporation paying for the civil structure and People for Animals for the LPG incinerator, and was inaugurated on 6 December 2022; it cremates about four dogs per two-hour cycle, and People for Animals runs it under a memorandum of understanding and 'will collect user charges from people for the cremation of their pets'. No charge has been published since. A second facility of 500 square yards was approved at Gopanpally in October 2023, built by the Raga Foundation as corporate social responsibility inside a GHMC complex; whether it has opened is not reported, and since 11 February 2026 the Fathullaguda centre sits in the residual GHMC while Gopanpally is in the new Cyberabad corporation, as Bonbeno's Hyderabad report records.

Chennai: free, 8 to 5, 439 in three months

The Greater Chennai Corporation's pet crematorium at Kannammapet in T Nagar, built for Rs 50 lakh under the Singara Chennai 2.0 project, had cremated 439 pets from its opening in October 2025 to 20 January 2026; it uses 'modern dual-chambered gasifier technology', is 'designed to handle small animals such as cats and dogs', runs 'daily from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM', is 'entirely free', and returns the ashes on request. The corporation also keeps pet burial grounds at Moolakotthalam in Royapuram zone, Mylapore in Teynampet zone and Kannammapet itself. At the rate of its first three and a half months it cremates about 120 a month, which is Delhi's lower bound at no charge; Bonbeno's Chennai report has the licence that the city, unlike Mumbai, does not require for the booking.

Pune: the first civic animal crematorium in Maharashtra, at 2019 prices

The PMC's incinerator for pets and small animals near Naidu Hospital opened in November 2019 as 'the first-ever animal crematorium in the State for animals to be run by a civic body', a 2,000 square foot building with a 40 kVA generator that 'cost an estimated Rs 98 lakh', with a proposed charge of Rs 2,000 'per cremation of a domestic dog and cat', Rs 3,000 for large domestic animals, free cremation of strays, and transport of a dead pet for Rs 200. No later rate card or operating hours could be found, so the price is what the helpline quotes; Bonbeno's Pune report records the city's other end-of-life options.

Bengaluru: ten years old, 400 a month, three fee schedules and nine months shut

Sumanahalli, the BBMP's electric animal crematorium on Magadi Road in Bengaluru (Bangalore), opened to the public on 9 November 2015 after a Rs 3 crore build, with two incinerators, a fee of Rs 300 for a small animal and Rs 1,000 for a big one, and strays free. By December 2024 it cremated 'nearly 400 animals a month, at least 14 a day', at Rs 300 for a dog and Rs 600 for a larger animal, and the corporation had identified plots of about 2,000 square feet at Yelahanka and Dasarahalli for two more; by June 2025 the fee was reported as Rs 800 for a dog and Rs 300 for a cat, burial elsewhere ran upwards of Rs 2,000, and the exhaust pipe had collapsed. The chimney fell on 14 April 2025 and the facility reopened on 12 January 2026, 7 am to 5 pm; neither new plot was open by then. Bonbeno's Bengaluru report prints all three fee schedules rather than choosing.

Ahmedabad: Gujarat's first, on CNG, about Rs 700, booked against the licence

The AMC's CNG pet crematorium at the CNCD Animal Birth Control centre in Behrampura, operational from 9 February 2026, was 'set up at a cost of Rs 30 lakh', takes 'up to three dogs at a time' in a chamber of about four feet by three by three at 800 to 900 degrees, at 'about Rs 700 per dog', booked by reporting the death on the corporation's 155303 helpline with the pet's registration details. By October 2026 '600 dogs and cats have been cremated with traditional last rites in Ahmedabad over the past nine months', 547 pets and 53 strays, with requests on some days for five to seven, and two more were planned 'at a cost of around Rs 60 lakh' at Vastral and in the west near the Ring Road. Bonbeno's Ahmedabad report has the Rs 2,000 licence the booking requires.

Kolkata: nothing municipal, and a Rs 2,500 burial in New Town

No report, notice or fee schedule this report could reach records a pet crematorium run by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. The New Town Kolkata Development Authority's pet dog cemetery at Action Area III buries a pet for Rs 2,500 against a death certificate from a recognised veterinary doctor, and Bonbeno's Kolkata report records the absence as a finding rather than filling it.

Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Hubballi-Dharwad and Nagpur

Jamshedpur's facility, 'eastern India's first' on gas, opened on 1 March 2025 near the dog kennel in Jubilee Park, funded by Tata Steel, on PNG 'one of the cheapest burning fuels', at Rs 3,000 for pets up to 50 kilograms. In Faridabad the NGO AAPSI built a stray dog crematorium on municipal land, able to take animals up to 80 kilograms, reported in January 2026, and the NGO Aapsee opened 'India's 1st pet green crematorium' at Budhena village on National Pet Day in April 2026, a furnace using 60 to 80 kilograms of wood a cycle against up to 400 on a pyre, with 42 cremations by 13 April. Ghaziabad's corporation built the city's first dog crematorium near Nandi Park by the Hindon in February 2022, with an estimated Rs 500 for pet owners and community dogs free; its current status is unreported. Hubballi-Dharwad's corporation had two units ready in October 2025 at its solid waste plants on Karwar Road and near Hosayallapur, about Rs 53 lakh each from a Finance Commission grant, each able to incinerate 80 to 100 kilograms an hour, 20 to 30 small carcasses a day, under a 30-metre chimney, awaiting inauguration. And in Nagpur, where the corporation sanctioned a Bhandewadi animal crematorium in May 2023, the city's first operating facility by June 2026 was the Rise NGO's, on electricity and LPG at its Hingna Road centre.

What it costs: free to Rs 3,000 at a municipal facility, Rs 5,000 and up privately, Rs 2,500 to bury

The cremation fee is a council's choice, not the fire's. Two cities charge nothing and two charge Rs 2,000 for the same gas.

A pet dog costs nothing to cremate at Mumbai's Malad facility or Chennai's, about Rs 700 at Ahmedabad's, Rs 800 at Bengaluru's by the latest report, Rs 2,000 at Delhi's and Pune's, and Rs 3,000 at Jamshedpur's CarryMyPet, 'Chennai's First Pet… DeshGujarat, 'Ahmedabad Gets Gujarat's… Deccan Herald, 'High burial cost strains… ThePrint, Heena Fatima The Bridge Chronicle ThePrint (PTI), 'Jamshedpur gets eastern…. Weight sets the band where there is one: Delhi's Rs 3,000 above 30 kilograms, Pune's Rs 3,000 for a large animal, Jamshedpur's ceiling at 50 The Bridge Chronicle ThePrint (PTI), 'Jamshedpur gets eastern…. Every facility that states a rate for strays cremates them free Free Press Journal Citizen Matters, Akshatha M.

Private cremation is the comparison. Delhi's private crematoria charge Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000; Bengaluru's private services Rs 5,000 and more, with burial upwards of Rs 2,000, and in 2016 the People for Animals cemetery at Kengeri charged Rs 4,500 for a regular burial and Rs 18,000 to 25,000 for a plot kept three years; Kolkata's New Town cemetery buries for Rs 2,500. A market estimate exists for the whole: IMARC puts India's pet funeral services market at USD 68.1 million in 2025, growing at 12.17 percent a year to USD 197.2 million by 2034, a figure built on private operators' prices rather than municipal ones, and printed here as the one such estimate found.

How much they are used: 400 a month in Bengaluru, 120 to 180 in Delhi, about 120 in Chennai, 67 in Ahmedabad

Four facilities publish a throughput. Together they say a big city cremates somewhere between two and fourteen animals a day, and that the free ones fill fastest.

Bengaluru's Sumanahalli cremated 'nearly 400 animals a month, at least 14 a day' before its chimney collapsed, and in its first six weeks in 2015 had taken 27 dogs and one horse. Delhi's Dwarka centre, designed for 25 a day, handles 120 to 180 a month; Chennai's free facility took 439 in its first three and a half months; Ahmedabad's took 600 in nine, 547 of them pets, with requests on some days for five to seven against a capacity of three at a time. Delhi's contract already provides for more furnaces and further branches if the daily count reaches 25, and Ahmedabad has planned two more.

The strays are the half nobody counts. Ahmedabad's 53 strays in 600 is the only split published; Delhi's 15 of 25 designed places are for street animals brought through municipal channels, and Faridabad built a separate 80-kilogram unit for strays before its pet one. What a city does with the dogs that die on its streets, and that rule 16(7) says must be incinerated if rabies is suspected, is the use these facilities were built for first.

What it takes to build one: Rs 30 lakh to Rs 3 crore, a gas line or a transformer, and a site 250 metres from houses

The build costs on record span a hundredfold. Most of the difference is what the corporation counted into the number.

Ahmedabad built its CNG unit for Rs 30 lakh and has planned two more for about Rs 60 lakh; Chennai's gasifier cost Rs 50 lakh; Pune's incinerator building Rs 98 lakh; Delhi's and Hyderabad's about Rs 1 crore each; Hubballi-Dharwad's two units about Rs 53 lakh each; Bengaluru's 2015 facility Rs 3 crore; Mumbai's three with five years of operation Rs 17 crore; and Nagpur's corporation revised its Bhandewadi sanction from Rs 3.50 crore to Rs 9.50 crore in 2023 Gujarat Samachar, '9 Months DT Next, 'Chennai The Bridge Chronicle ThePrint, Heena Fatima The News Minute, 'GHMC builds pet… ETV Bharat, 'Karnataka's First Animal… Citizen Matters, Akshatha M Free Press Journal Nagpur Municipal Corporation. The fuel is the design choice, and most units are gas-fired: PNG in Mumbai and Jamshedpur, CNG in Delhi and Ahmedabad, LPG in Hyderabad and at Nagpur's NGO unit, electricity in Bengaluru and at Mumbai's Mahalaxmi, a gasifier in Chennai, and wood at Faridabad's green furnace, where the claim is 60 to 80 kilograms a cycle against 400 on a pyre.

Siting follows the rules. The Department of Animal Husbandry's guidelines put an incineration site 'at least two hundred fifty meters away from human habitat', and Maharashtra's circular tells its civic bodies to find the space 'near dumping grounds' behind a compound wall, which is where they are: Mumbai's Deonar unit at the abattoir, Hubballi-Dharwad's at its solid waste plants, Nagpur's planned one at the Bhandewadi dump, Delhi's, Hyderabad's and Ahmedabad's inside the sterilisation centres the ABC Rules already require ETV Bharat, 'Karnataka's First Animal… Nagpur Municipal Corporation. Bengaluru's chimney collapse and nine-month closure is the maintenance lesson; Mumbai bought five years of operation into its contract.

The gaps: a capital with no fee, a state with a circular and no timeline, and the cities with nothing

The map of pet cremation in India is thirteen cities. The absences are the finding.

• Kolkata has no municipal pet crematorium, and the only public option with a published price is a burial ground run by a different authority in New Town.
• Hyderabad's charge is whatever the operator sets. The corporation built the shell and gave the NGO the fee; three years on, no figure has been printed, and the second facility's opening is unreported.
• Pune's rates are seven years old on paper, and Ghaziabad's facility has not been reported on since it opened.
• Bengaluru's two new plots, Hubballi-Dharwad's two finished units, Ahmedabad's two planned ones and Nagpur's Bhandewadi project were all unopened when their last report was written ETV Bharat, 'Karnataka's First Animal… Gujarat Samachar, '9 Months The Hitavada, 'City's first animal….
• Maharashtra's circular ordered every civic body in the state to build, and set no date; the Animal Birth Control Rules have required an incinerator at every local authority since March 2023, and the twelve cities here are the ones that have reported complying.
• Surat and Lucknow are reported by pet-services sites to have budgeted or ordered facilities; neither claim could be traced to a corporation document or a news report, so neither is a row in this dataset.

Bonbeno's guide to what to do when your pet dies in India covers the hours after a death, the private options and the paperwork in the cities with no municipal service.

What a pet owner can do with this table

Six things that follow from the record, in the order a bereaved owner meets them.

1. Find your city's row, which says who to call, and phone before you travel. Thirteen crematoria are operating, four are not yet open and Ghaziabad's status is unreported; none publishes a live status, and Bengaluru's was shut for nine months.
2. Have the licence or registration ready. Mumbai's booking page requires the municipal licence for a pet dog and a vet's death certificate for a stray, Ahmedabad's helpline asks for the pet's registration, and Kolkata's New Town cemetery wants a veterinary death certificate before it buries.
3. Expect the fee to be by weight where there is one. Delhi and Pune charge Rs 3,000 above the band and Jamshedpur stops at 50 kilograms The Bridge Chronicle ThePrint (PTI), 'Jamshedpur gets eastern….
4. Ask for the ashes if you want them. Chennai returns them on request and Delhi plants a tree in the memory garden; the other facilities do not say.
5. If the animal may have died of rabies, call the corporation's veterinary officer and do not bury it. The rules require an incinerator.
6. If your city has nothing, the private price is Rs 5,000 and up Deccan Herald, 'High burial cost strains…, and the Department of Animal Husbandry's guidelines name deep burial as the method where incineration is not possible.

What this table does not measure

Every row was read from a report of the facility, not from a visit or a call, and the limits travel with that.

• Status is the last report's, not today's. Thirteen facilities are 'operating' because the most recent document says so; Bengaluru's chimney shows how a status can change for nine months without a notice.
• Fees are the latest reported and are often old. Pune's are from 2019, Ghaziabad's from 2022, Bengaluru's from three reports that disagree; only Ahmedabad's and Delhi's were reported in 2026.
• Throughput is published by four facilities and counts pets and strays together, except Ahmedabad's split; a 'month' at Chennai is 439 divided by the time since opening.
• Build costs are not comparable. Mumbai's includes five years of operation, Hyderabad's splits building from machine, Nagpur's is a sanction and not a bill, and none is inflation-adjusted.
• The list is of facilities that were reported, so a municipal unit that opened without press coverage is missing, and the private sector, which does most of the cremations in the cities with no municipal one, is outside the table by design.
• The market estimate is one firm's. IMARC's USD 68.1 million is printed because it is the only India figure found, not because its method could be read.

How this report was built

Every figure was read from the document cited, and most rows were first established for Bonbeno's eight city reports of November 2026.

1. The rules are the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 as gazetted, read from the eGazette copy for the local authority's obligations and rule 16(7); the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying's guidelines K-11/15/2023-LH, read from the copy hosted by the Meghalaya veterinary department; the Maharashtra circular from the Free Press Journal of 26 April 2025; and the Bombay High Court's hearing from PTI's wire of 9 July 2025.
2. Mumbai is from the Free Press Journal of 15 September 2023 and 16 April 2026 Free Press Journal and the BMC Veterinary Health Department's booking terms; Delhi from ThePrint of 27 December 2023 and The Patriot of 12 August 2026 The Patriot, 'Delhi's first MCD-run pet…; Hyderabad from The News Minute of 5 December 2022 and Telangana Today of 8 October 2023 Telangana Today, 'Hyderabad; Chennai from DT Next of 20 January 2026 and CarryMyPet of 8 October 2025 CarryMyPet, 'Chennai's First Pet…; Pune from The Bridge Chronicle of 4 November 2019.
3. Bengaluru is from Citizen Matters of 4 January 2016 and the Deccan Herald of 19 December 2024, 20 June 2025 and 10 January 2026 Deccan Herald, 'Bengaluru to get two more… Deccan Herald, 'High burial cost strains… Deccan Herald, 'Sumanahalli animal…; Ahmedabad from DeshGujarat of 9 February 2026 and Gujarat Samachar of 8 October 2026 Gujarat Samachar, '9 Months; Kolkata from the New Town Kolkata Development Authority's service page.
4. Jamshedpur is from PTI via ThePrint of 1 March 2025; Faridabad from The Tribune of 13 April 2026 and ETV Bharat of 23 January 2026 ETV Bharat, 'Faridabad Launches Dedicated…; Ghaziabad from the Free Press Journal of 22 February 2022; Hubballi-Dharwad from ETV Bharat of 7 October 2025; Nagpur from the Nagpur Municipal Corporation's administrator's resolution of 23 May 2023 and The Hitavada of 8 June 2026. The market estimate is IMARC's India page.
5. The dataset is the facility table with one row per facility or plot; the charts take the latest reported fee, the published throughputs with Delhi's range at its midpoint and Chennai's total divided by months open, and the build costs as stated. The Surat and Lucknow claims found only on pet-services sites were left out.