Following a meeting with Gujarat chief minister Bhupendrabhai Patel at his residence in Gandhinagar on Wednesday, Mayor Ritu Tawde said the decks have been cleared for the arrival of Asiatic lions at Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Botanical Udyan and Zoo in Byculla. Asiatic lions are set to return to Byculla Zoo after 12 years under a proposed exchange with Junagadh’s Sakkarbaug Zoo.