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Jain monk Nileshchandra Vijay, who began an indefinite hunger onslaught connected Monday (November 3, 2025) astatine Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, demanding the restoration of Dadar pigeon structure (Kabutarkhana) and different demands, ended the protestation aft Cabinet Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha and Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar assured a treatment connected solutions wrong 15 days.
The leaders told him that each issues and demands would beryllium discussed with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and “appropriate enactment volition beryllium taken”.
Mr. Lodha said, “I requested him to extremity the protestation arsenic this authorities is for the Jain assemblage besides and volition ever bash bully for the society. Many organisations are moving against the government, and Muniji should beryllium the protector. We person to hold for the Bombay HC to marque a decision. However, the substance volition beryllium discussed with CM.”
“The intent of this accelerated was to awaken the conscience of the Government and civic authorities towards the extortion of temples, animals, birds, and the environment, which contiguous look neglect, misinformation, and cruelty,” the monk Nileshchandra Vijay said earlier ending the fast, adding that the BMC’s suggested 4 spots are conscionable a “lollipop” to appease the Jain community.
After the Bombay HC order, the BMC precocious allowed controlled feeding of pigeons astatine 4 locations — Worli Reservoir, the mangrove country connected Lokhandwala Back Road successful Andheri West, the Airoli-Mulund cheque station area, and Gorai crushed successful Borivali West.
The timings volition beryllium betwixt 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., with work of non-governmental organisations to negociate the sites.
Jain monks did not o.k. of these alternate sites, arsenic these are arsenic acold arsenic 4, 5 and adjacent 9 kilometres away. “Will a pigeon alert truthful far? Their flying radius is wrong 1 oregon 2 km of the existing Kabutarkhana,” monk Nileshchandra said.
The different demands include, work of immoderate existing authorities oregon municipal argumentation banning pigeon oregon vertebrate feeding oregon contented contiguous clarification that feeding is not prohibited, regular sanitation programme astatine feeding areas by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), contiguous aesculapian and veterinary attraction for injured oregon dehydrated stray animals, and birds, extortion of cattle and each milch and workplace animals, and declaration of each past temples and sanctuaries arsenic Heritage Sites.
The contented of quality deaths owed to vulnerability to pigeon droppings surfaced successful July, with the Bombay HC directing BMC to adjacent down Dadar Kabutarkhana, a pigeon feeding spot. The contented was archetypal raised by Shiv Sena person Manisha Kayande successful the Maharashtra legislative assembly connected July 3. Later, connected absorption from the Jain community, the Bombay HC formed an adept committee to find alternatives. To which BMC came up with a controlled feeding solution. However, the representatives of the Jain assemblage expressed dissatisfaction and said, “they person nary spot successful the committee”.
“BMC claims 65% of droppings and feathers are a wellness hazard. Prove archetypal that this is due to the fact that of pigeons. BMC to nutrient the information from wherever they got this report. BMC wants to travel with the poultry house, which is the astir hazardous root of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Those cars spell astir the city; they don’t privation to stop. We person RTI report, wherever the authorities infirmary replied that retired of 52000 cases, lone 2 are exposed to pigeons,” said Sneha Visaria, 1 of the petitioners successful the case.
