Tata Group wins auction to operate Taj Mansingh hotel in Delhi for 33 yrs

NEW DELHI: The Tata Group, also known as Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), will continue to run Mansingh hotel. The Tata Group on Friday managed to get a 33-year lease of the property in an e-auction held on Friday by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).

NDMC has been trying to auction the Mansingh Hotel, which is owned by the civic body and popularly known as Taj Mansingh, since 2011, when its lease expired. IHCL, which was operating the hotel till 2011, has since been given nine temporary extensions. The group retained the lease at a licence fee of ₹7.03 crore a month, a senior NDMC official said.

››FULL REPORT, P11 LATUR/OSMANABAD: Twenty-five years after a deadly earthquake struck 1,323 villages in central Maharashtra’s Latur and Osmanabad districts on September 30, 1993, killing 7,917 people and leaving thousands more injured, homeless and orphaned, the survivors still live in fear.

Most houses in these villages have tin shades built outside for residents to take shelter if another earthquake strikes.

This, along with the tremors these villages experience regularly even now — are constant reminders of the scale of the devastation.

In a special series, HT revisits In a two-part series, HT revisits the villages in central Maharashtra that were hit the worst to find out how survivors picked up the pieces to build back their lives again.

the villages that were hit the worst to find out how survivors picked up the pieces to build back their lives again.

››SHAKEN AND STILL

SCARRED, P6