The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is again in the news for one of its policies, even as it has had to beat a hasty retreat on its ambitious parking penalty regime. But the more worrying policy decision concerns not the city's streets, but something far more important — Mumbai's gardens and open spaces.

Like the BMC leader of the opposition from the Congress, Ravi Raja, aptly said on Thursday, every municipal commissioner seems to come with their own vision of what is good for the city and what is not.