Fear of de-accreditation of Cosmopolitan Club: Violates the Rules

Cancellation of social activities; Violation of terms of lease agreement with BDA

Fear of de-accreditation of Cosmopolitan Club: Violates the Rules

Kere Manjunath ಕೆರೆ ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್ 

Bengaluru: The prestigious Cosmopolitan Club of Jayanagar is facing the threat of losing its recognition and space for violating the terms and conditions of the BDA.

 Construction and operation of commercial centers should be facilitated. In lieu of this, various social services including mid-day meals will be provided to the citizens of the areas surrounding the Cosmopolitan Club and to the workers working in the club, the lease agreement said. But now the social service works have been stopped.

 The Cosmopolitan Club, which has over three thousand members, was leased by the BDA for 30 years in 2000–2001. In 2009, ``Cosmopolitan Club Corpus Fund Trust'' was established for social work. Through this, many kinds of work including distribution of books and clothes were done. Many have also donated lakhs under Income Tax Act 80G.

 A lunch of the best quality including payas and ghee was served daily at the club to about a thousand people. However, it has been decided to stop this now in the meeting of all members of the club. As such, mid-day meal is not being served from August 1. By this, all the social activities have come to a standstill and it is a violation of the cover given to the BDA.

 Cosmopolitan Club, which has 69 thousand square feet of corner property, has built commercial centers as well. From this, the rent is ₹15 lakh every month. As the social functions are stopped, the rent of centers for commercial purpose should be paid to BDA. Ganesh Singh of Bengaluru Civil Rights Struggle Committee has written a letter to the BDA Commissioner that immediate action should be taken in this regard.

Under the guise of doing social work, the club is only paying a rent of ₹1 crore (about ₹27,000 per month) for 30 years for a 69,000-square-foot property. Due to breach of contract, at least ₹5 lakh per month rent will be available to BDA. The lease of this property worth more than ₹600 crore should be cancelled. He demanded that the club should be run by BDA.

 I had written the cover letter: President 

 'During the construction of a building for commercial purposes, there were a lot of legal problems. We also took another area to build a parking lot. In return for all this, I was given a letter by the club when I was the secretary to do social work. Now the social activity have stopped and it has been violated, said Kumar Raju, president of the Cosmopolitan Club.

 About one thousand people were served lunch. However, some insisted to stop this in the recent all-member general body meeting. As they all insisted, it was decided to stop serving lunch, a social works, despite my opposition. Accordingly, it has stopped', he informed.

 "We have not built the club from the beginning to be just a fun place. We are also doing social work. We have established a trust and are doing many kinds of work including books, pens and food for the poor. The trust was not given a single rupee by the club. Only space was provided for lunch. Minister Ramalingareddy and others used to give many donations. Due to this social work was going on. Despite all kinds of appeals not to stop these, a decision has been taken out of the interest of some. Kumar Raju told 'Prajavani' that, he has also informed BDA president Rakesh Singh about this and requested him to take action.

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