Mumbai:, May 5 -- The Residents of Carmichael Road on Sunday got together at a meeting to chalk out a plan to save a privately-owned green cover plot from going under development.

The residents claim that over one acre of land which houses several trees, some of which are over 100-year-old, was originally reserved for a children's park.

According to the residents, the Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC) had to pay a conveyance to the owner and build a park, but they did not do so and instead, the land went under litigation. The land parcel has been sold by the Parsi owners to Mah-hill properties, a real estate company.

"Now that the builders have taken it, we are not sure what will happen to the land, but there should be a childre...