After the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued notices to several decades old Irani bakeries to switch over from wood to less polluting fuels, many of these establishments in Bombay are at risk of shutting down (see "Bakeries: heritage status?” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, March 21-April 6, 2025). Acting in their interest, former Bharatiya Janata Party corporator Makarand Narwekar has written to the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) requesting heritage status for Irani cafes and bakeries. He told The Free Press Journal (FPJ) of March 15, 2025, that he had also written to the BMC but there was no response.
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