Why is this snazzy club in Sec 27 the only one to be built by Noida Authority?
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Why is this snazzy club in Sec 27 the only one to be built by Noida Authority?

This club will be ready for use by residents by the end of next month. Find out the history behind it.

Why is this snazzy club in Sec 27 the only one to be built by Noida Authority? The almost-ready club

Residents of Sector 27, Noida, have a New Year gift waiting for them. The sector club will be ready for use by the end of next month!

According to an official of Noida Authority, only 2 per cent of the work remains to be completed. “Noida Authority CEO, Alok Tandon, directed officials to get the club ready for use by next month,” the official confirmed.

However, there's an interesting history behind this.

Yadav Singh, former Noida Authority chief engineer, who is now behind bars for a corruption case under CBI probe, had ordered the construction of this high-end club in 2010. He owned a bungalow in the sector, and his wife, Kusum Lata, was also the RWA president at the time.

According to a source, the project got special approval from Noida Authority in 2010. There are no similar clubs in other sectors. The clubs in sectors 26 and 15A were built by the residents themselves.

This club has been built around a budget of Rs 18 crore! According to SC Mishra, project engineer of Noida Authority, the three-storey building will have a bar, a restaurant, a gym, a banquet hall, a tennis court, a library, a billiards zone and basement parking for 200 vehicles.

He added, “The rules of the club are yet to be finalised — and the process is expected to be completed in a few days. All Noida residents can avail membership of the club.”

The Authority had completed the building’s structure in 2012. However, the same year work had to be stopped, as the state government removed Singh from his post and filed an FIR against him in a corruption case.

On November 1, 2013, the UP government reinstated him as the chief engineer. But almost a year later, central agencies launched a probe against him. During this period too, the Authority carried out work on the club building, but things were again put on the back burner when the CBI began its investigation against Singh.

Finally, on February 2016, the CBI arrested him, following the arrest of his aide Ramendra Singh, a suspended project engineer of Noida Authority, in December 2015.

Both are now under judicial custody at Dasna jail in Ghaziabad.

But, of course, club plans in the sector are still on!