The suburbs are playing catch up with south Mumbai when it comes to the liveability index. An uplifting report in this paper stated that tenders have been invited for four gardens in the suburbs.

Each of these gardens will be based on a theme, like a traffic garden, science garden, multi-sports park and barefoot/meditation garden. The report was based on a top BMC official stating that this has been done as part of Guardian Minister of the Suburbs Aaditya Thackeray’s vision. There was some thought about uplifting the suburbs through urban interventions like these. It was also based on the philosophy that SoBo has some good, developed infra, so it is time to bring the suburbs at par.