Just a week after mid-day did a sundown tour of 23 public parks in the city and found the gates of Bandra's Rao Saheb Patwardhan garden to be closed after 10pm, the authorities concerned took the required steps and started keeping it open 24x7, in accordance with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC's) directives. However, according to the garden department, while the park sees a considerable footfall during afternoon, the response after midnight was quite poor.

Towards the beginning of this month, the civic body had decided to keep all gardens open in the afternoon, and as part of a pilot project, allow access to one garden in each ward 24x7. The Rao Saheb Patwardhan garden of 18,000-square-metres area is one of the most well maintained gardens of Bandra and was selected to be kept open all day and night. However, even after the civic body's directives, the local ward office did not keep it open 24x7 as local residents and corporators were against it.