Another popular protest is about to yield fruit, with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) considering scrapping the tender for a controversial underground parking lot at Patwardhan Park in Bandra West. The civic body stopped floating the tender after 12 extensions and though no decision has been taken yet on scrapping the tender process, there will be a discussion on it in the coming weeks.

The BMC floated the tender for an underground parking lot at Patwardhan Park in March 2023. After a year-long protest from residents, the BMC has decided to scrap the tender due to local resistance. “The BMC is thinking of scrapping the tender for the underground parking due to local resistance. But no formal decision has been made yet,” said Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani. A civic official said that the tender was not uploaded on the e-tender site. Though the BMC needs permission to allot a work order as the matter is in the high court, it doesn’t need permission to scrap it.