The Khar-Bandra residents’ battle to save part of Patwardhan Park, is getting more difficult, after the BMC and traffic police refused to give them information on the official parking spaces available in its vicinity. The residents are now waiting for a reply from Worli traffic division but don’t expect a positive response.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials visited Patwardhan Park in February and floated a tender for underground parking in one part of the park in the first week of March. Residents and activists have been opposing it since then, citing destruction of open space for private vehicles and that the underground parking lot will be constructed even above the ground leaving no space for children to play. Besides, full grown trees in the area will be cut for the lot.