Overview
- The public consultation runs from August 18 to 29 and aims to gauge support for feeding windows, proposed at Dadar from 6 to 8 am under specified conditions.
- Three formal feeding proposals—filed by the Dadar Kabutarkhana Trust Board, Yasmin Bhansali and Company, and activist Pallavi Patil—are posted on the civic body’s website for review.
- Following a Bombay High Court directive, selected citizen inputs will inform a court-empaneled medical committee tasked with assessing health and infrastructure risks.
- Meanwhile, sealed kabutarkhanas remain off-limits and municipal enforcement actions, including fines and FIRs against feeders, continue pending the committee’s report.
- The dispute has prompted widespread protests, with community members forcibly removing tarpaulins and dismantling scaffolding to uphold religious feeding traditions.