The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plan to convert a dumping ground into a botanical garden will achieve a two-fold aim when it opens to public next month. One, it will provide the residents of Sion and Chembur East area a recreation spot and secondly, it will keep encroachers and anti-social elements at bay.

The themed-botanical garden which will offer residents of Sion and Chembur East a recreational area

For this, the civic body will spend Rs 6 crore.

The six-acre plot near Priyadarshini circle in Kurla East along the Eastern Express Highway used to be a dumping ground for garbage and debris from nearby construction sites.