The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will take at least a month to take a final decision concerning the controversial draft Recreation Grounds and Playgrounds (RG-PG) policy. Activists have been unhappy about aspects of the policy and have demanded that civic body should listen to citizens’ voices. The BMC published the draft of the RG-PG policy on September 8, 2023, and appealed to stakeholders to submit suggestions and objections.

“By the last day, October 10, the BMC’s garden department received around 100 suggestions and objections. They are still being counted. It will take at least a month to make decisions regarding the feedback,” an official stated. “We need to study the suggestions and objections we have received. That is why we need at least one month more,” said another official.