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Stop using national park for non-forest activities: Activists

Environmentalists say BMC could have chosen from several other options including parking lots, closed municipal gardens and the defunct Octroi naka for its drive-in vaccination centre

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The BMC has been told to make its own arrangements to set up and run the facility. Pic/Satej Shinde

The BMC has been told to make its own arrangements to set up and run the facility. Pic/Satej Shinde

While the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) authorities have given permission to the civic body to set up a drive-in vaccination centre at the parking lot, city-based environmentalists have raised objections saying using the national park for activities not related to the forest is not a good idea.

mid-day had reported the park authorities’ decision to let BMC create a vaccination centre that would serve suburbs like Kandivli, Borivli and Dahisar.

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