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The Deputy Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department, V. Lakshminath, has written to the Urban Development Department (UDD) to initiate steps to modulate and prohibit the feeding of pigeons successful nationalist places.
The Health Department has requested the UDD to contented directions to the Greater Bengaluru Authority and each municipal corporations to enforce circumstantial guidelines.
These see a broad prohibition connected feeding pigeons successful areas that origin nuisance oregon wellness hazards. Feeding whitethorn beryllium permitted lone successful designated areas. The feeding should beryllium nether controlled conditions, for constricted hours, and with attraction responsibilities assigned to charitable organisations oregon NGOs.
Local authorization officers person been authorised to contented on-the-spot warnings, enforce fines, oregon initiate prosecution for violations. The enactment besides directs corporations to behaviour nationalist consciousness campaigns to amended citizens astir wellness risks, regulatory provisions, penalties, and alternate “humane” methods of vertebrate conservation.
The missive dated December 16 highlights the increasing risks posed by excessive pigeon droppings and feathers successful densely populated areas arsenic the crushed down the move. The missive highlights aesculapian experts’ caution that prolonged vulnerability to pigeon droppings and feathers tin pb to respiratory illnesses specified arsenic hypersensitivity pneumonitis and different lung diseases.
The section cautioned that specified conditions whitethorn origin terrible and sometimes irreversible lung damage, peculiarly among susceptible groups. It besides refers to akin regulatory measures undertaken by the Greater Mumbai Corporation pursuing directions from the Bombay High Court.
The section has outlined the ineligible provisions that empower the corp to curb the “issue”. These see Sections 270, 271 and 272 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which woody with nationalist nuisance and acts apt to dispersed diseases unsafe to life.
In addition, powers nether the Greater Bengaluru Authority Act, 2025, and the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976, alteration civic bodies to instrumentality measures to forestall the dispersed of unsafe diseases and guarantee nationalist sanitation, according to the letter.
