The BMC has extended the deadline for the submission of the tender for the underground parking lot at Patwardhan Park for the fifth time. Activists, meanwhile, have demanded that the tender be scrapped.

The civic body’s controversial parking lot plan is now in the high court. Activists and architects filed a public interest litigation in this regard on April 26 and the hearing is to be held in June. Meanwhile, the BMC has now extended the timeline again. The BMC floated the tender on March 9 for the three-storey parking facility at one part of the park at an estimated cost of Rs 75 crore.