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In a archetypal aft its September 2023 takeover of the century-old Roshanara Club, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) opened a month-long model to connection beingness memberships for 750 applications astatine the club. Beginning Wednesday, the civic assemblage volition judge applications till November 14.
According to a DDA release, 400 of the 750 memberships volition autumn nether the non-government category, priced astatine ₹12.5 lakh per applicant, portion the remaining will beryllium offered successful the authorities class astatine ₹4 lakh.
“This is simply a uncommon accidental to beryllium portion of a nine that represents Delhi’s taste and sporting legacy. We’ve restored it not conscionable arsenic a practice structure, but arsenic a vibrant centre for recreation and excellence,” a DDA spokesperson said.
All applications volition beryllium accepted lone done the DDA’s authoritative website, and indispensable beryllium accompanied by a non-refundable exertion interest of ₹2,500 (inclusive of GST). If the fig of applications exceeds the fig of disposable memberships, enactment volition beryllium made by computerised gully of lots, according to a DDA release.
Dispute and takeover
The determination to unfastened nationalist memberships follows the DDA’s takeover of the nine nether the Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena successful September 2023 aft a long-standing lease dispute. The lease granted during the British epoch expired successful 2012 and 2017 for 2 antithetic portions of the club.
The DDA took possession after the Delhi High Court upheld its eviction order.
The nine is located connected a 22-acre crippled successful northbound Delhi and is named aft Begum Roshanara, girl of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Established successful 1922, it was besides the tract wherever the Board of Control for Cricket successful India was founded successful 1928. Before the takeover, the nine had much than 4,000 members.
