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Priyadarshini Park and Sports Complex, also known as PDP, is a public park spread over 60,000 square metres in South Mumbai, popular with citizens from the neighbourhoods around Malabar Hill. The park has a sea facing 500 metre dirt track and a 400-metre eight-lane synthetic track that is open from 5.30 am to 9 pm.

The Maharashtra state government had handed over the plot to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in 1980.

Malabar Hill Citizens' Forum took up the sea-side plot of land from the government in 1985 to develop it into a park cum sports centre.

However, the development planning (DC) rules clearly stated that 26,000 sqm of the plot will be reserved for a maidan, 19,000 sqm for a garden and 8,000 sqm for a freeway to connect Malabar Hill to Worli. Six thousand sqm was reserved for a fire station and 1,000 sqm for the post-office.