India, Aug. 25 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will soon demolish the six-decade-old Shanti Desai Sports Club - previously known as Municipal Sports Club - in Kaccha Bagh near the Old Delhi Railway Station to pave way for its long pending redevelopment, officials said on Sunday. The civic body's engineering wing has moved the proposal for demolishing the existing structure to the works committee.

A senior civic official said that the existing single storey structure will be demolished and the space would be used for setting up a double storey multi-purpose hall in its place. The existing building was inaugurated in 1966 by the then mayor Nuruddin Ahmed. The club, which has an attached playground, was renamed after another for...