Overview

• The Maharashtra government has instructed the BMC to immediately close all 51 designated pigeon feeding spots across the city
• The BMC health department is drafting standard operating procedures and will issue public guidelines next week to enforce the one-month awareness drive
• Unauthorized feeding sites in Santacruz East, Daulat Nagar and Santacruz West have been dismantled and redeveloped into traffic islands and Miyawaki gardens
• The G/North ward office removed grain sacks, illegal sheds and fencing at Dadar Kabootar Khana as part of encroachment-clearance operations
• Animal welfare groups led by Roshan Pathak have warned they will stage large-scale protests unless the ban is reversed