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Ready to rectify breaches, turf club tells civic body
A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner (BMC) issued an eviction notice to the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC), the club has filed an interim reply agreeing to rectify the irregularities.
A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner (BMC) issued an eviction notice to the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC), the club has filed an interim reply agreeing to rectify the irregularities.
The club replied to the eviction notice last week requesting the BMC for a hearing. The club has also said it is ready to rectify the irregularities.
Additional Municipal Commissioner (Estate department) Anil Diggikar said the club has replied saying they will rectify the breaches in the agreement. “They will submit us a detailed proposal and we’ll discuss the issue with them," said Diggikar.
Diggikar said the BMC will give the club a fair chance to present its side. If the BMC is not satisfied with the steps the club proposes, it will forward the eviction notice to its legal department that will ask the club to vacate the plot within 30 days."We want to solve the issue amiably with the civic body and hence have agreed to correct the irregularities," said a senior RWITC official requesting anonymity. “We will present our side to the BMC.”
The turf club and BMC have been caught in a dispute over the club's violation of the norms of the lease agreement between the two. The BMC has cited the rights granted by the club to the BJR Group to run Gallops restaurant in the members' enclosure of the racecourse as the primary reason for cancelling the club's lease.
The club sub-leased a portion of the 211-acre racecourse to a third party-the BJR Group--without the BMC’s consent for 10 years.
The lease agreement between the club and the BMC ends in 2013 but the club’s lease deal with BJR ends in 2018.
The BMC’s notice also said certain structures in the three restaurants on the property do not have the necessary clearances. The club had received an eviction notice in February 2009 on the same grounds.
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