As part of its efforts towards getting four Asiatic Lions for the Byculla zoo under an exchange programme, the BMC administration will on Wednesday put up a proposal to its standing committee to get two pairs of zebras.

The civic body plans to engage an agency for R82 lakh to get the striped animals from abroad. The agency will be told to directly hand over the zebras to Sakkarbaug Zoo in Junagadh, Gujarat, and Kamala Nehru Zoo in Indore.