A solution to the city’s parking woes is one of the major things that the pandemic has delayed. While it put a break on the work of the expert panel that was constituted last year, the new panel which was formed in January this year will take another year to complete its study and provide recommendations to solve the city’s parking problems.

Earlier, the BMC had appointed All India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to conduct the studies and form the first-of-its-kind Mumbai Parking Authority (MPT) for the city. The BMC spent '2.36 crore as charges between February 2019 and January 2020. The proposal from the Road and Traffic department of the BMC to approve another '42 lakh for the three-month period before the lockdown in April last year for AIILSG will be tabled in the standing committee for an approval.