Mumbai: More than two months after the Public Works Department (PWD) handed one Acre from the soil and Jawaharlal Nehru Park near Mantralaya to BMC for maintenance, the civil body was presented to residents plans to repair and renovate open space.
In the meeting which was held last week, the civil body together with the layout of the master plan, according to those who planned to maintain all existing trees and bushes and only made tracks, mountain grass, decorative lights, pergola with seating and portable security cabins, between several Other things.
The park falls under the Marine Drive Heritage Police, the nod of the Mumbai Heritage Preservation Committee (MHCC) will be needed before conducting a renovation.
Locals have monitored the Nehru Park project because they have struggled a long legal battle to save green space from illegal disorders.
Corporator Harshita Narwekar said the residents had been very clear from the start that open space must be renewed in a way that the green cover remained intact.
“City officials have completed the plot survey, including utility mapping, and we plan to start working as soon as possible,” he said.
The Nariman Point Churchgate residents of Welfare Trust (NPCCWT) who played an important role in saving Nehru Park from disturbances said they had been submitted to the authorities that they did not want a concrete single inch to crawl on.
“We have provided our input in how we want to be permeable and open to the sky room.
Garden cells are proposed to have a wavy landscape, but given the population of senior citizens in areas that might want to use space, we suggest saving it at one level without landscapes raised, “said Atul Kumar, Vice President of NPCCWT.
The date of the NPCCWT legal battle returned to 2013, when they had challenged disturbances near Nehru Garden by the BJP State Office, Janata Dal and institutions such as Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, the job market and Zunkha Bhakar Kendra (ZBK).
A BMC senior official from the park department said that all input from residents will be seriously considered, and while the work, they also plan to install the design proposed at the entrance in an effort to invite additional suggestions.