After much back and forth, the civic body has now decided to not extend its agreement with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) to run the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Byculla. Instead, it is set to initiate a new hiring process to find an agency to take care of the museum."

Senior civic officials said they will begin a fresh process to rope in an agency to run the museum, while also ensuring that the civic administration has more control than it did before. The tripartite agreement between the BMC, INTACH and the Jamnalal Bajaj Museum ended in September last year. Based on the previous agreement, INTACH, as part of the trust, managed the museum independently on a caretaker basis.