India, May 22 -- Mumbai will get 27 underground parking lots, one in each of the city's 27 administrative wards, if a proposal by the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the BMC goes through. These parking hubs will be built beneath gardens and playgrounds.

The proposal was announced by the BJP's Mumbai president, Ameet Satam, on Thursday, as the alliance presented a 100-day report card of its performance in Asia's richest municipal corporation.

This parking proposal is backed by fresh budgetary allocations in the BMC's budget and is being pitched as a solution to the city's worsening parking crisis, without the need to acquire additional land in a metro starved of open space.

Public representatives such as MLAs and local corporators have bee...