Terming the civic body’s interim policy on open spaces – which allows private bodies to maintain 216 plots for 11 months – abduction policy, activists have started an online petition against it. In his petition, Shailesh Gandhi, former central information commissioner, said, “Our corporators have shamelessly passed an abduction policy to create private third party interests in public spaces and deprive citizens. This is an open policy for corruption and abduction. The BMC has not been able to come up with an open space policy in ten years and has therefore proposed an interim policy. If these open spaces will go back to politicians, there is no use of the new policy.”

Source: Hindustan Times November 24, 2017 18:11 UTC