After getting longer access to the gardens in the city, Mumbaikars will now be able to walk into some of them at any time of the day. Civic chief Praveen Pardeshi ssued directions that the gardens will be allowed to remain open 24X7 here onwards with appropriate security measures.

Some of these gardens include Cooperage Bandstand near Mantralaya and Tata Garden at Bhulabhai Desai Road. This newspaper did a garden audit over the weekend, fanning across the city, to check out how the gardens-open-all-through-the-night policy was working.