The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not yet succeeded in finding a location to construct or enable a shelter for street dogs to implement directives issued by the Supreme Court in November 2025 to seize and relocate street or community dogs from public places such as educational institutions, hospitals, stadiums, and railway stations.

The BMC plan

In April, the BMC floated a plan to construct a shelter for lifetime care of the relocated dogs. It floated an expression of interest for NGOs working in animal welfare to build and operate a shelter that can house at least 3000 such dogs and sought to identify eligible organisations. The shelter, which could be built on 3000 square metres of land that the BMC is willing to provide, was to be equipped with vets for round-the-clock medical care and would provide food to the animals.