A week after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) allotted four spots across the city for controlled pigeon feeding, not a single petitioner or voluntary organisation has stepped forward to maintain them. Petitioners insist the civic body should instead allow feeding at the city’s 51 existing kabutarkhanas.

Last Friday, the civic body permitted controlled feeding at Worli reservoir, Lokhandwala Back Road in Andheri, Old Airoli-Mulund Octroi Naka, and Gorai Maidan in Borivli West. Organisations were asked to apply for permission and take responsibility for maintaining the sites, but no applications have been received so far.