Updated On: 30 April, 2023 07:19 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
Residents fighting to save the ground have organised a friendly cricket match to declare that the ground is anything but shut

Residents have been fighting hard to save the park, where a multi-storey parking lot is being planned. File photo
How do you tell the establishment that a supposedly closed playground it plans to eat up for a parking lot is anything but closed? You play on the ground.
Incensed at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation claiming that the Patwardhan Park in Bandra is “closed and only used for occasional community gatherings”, residents of the Khar -Bandra belt have organised a friendly cricket match at the playground.
The move comes on the heels of a Public Interest Litigation filed before the Bombay High Court against construction of a parking lot in one part of the playground. The BMC had floated a Rs 75 crore tender for a three-storey underground parking lot, inviting staunch opposition from local residents.