Despite the government's appeal to not cut salaries or lay off staff during the pandemic, urban planners and experts of the Mumbai Parking Authority (MPA) have not received payments from the civic body since May. Amid the COVID-19-caused lockdown, they were told that their work has been put on hold until further notice.

The MPA, constituted last year as an independent body to resolve the city's parking woes, comprises 15 urban planners and three experts, and is currently being headed by RERA chairman and retired IAS officer Gautam Chatterjee. Members said that they worked from home till March 23, after which work was suspended.