The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) is slated to meet with Uttar Pradesh government officials on December 5 in Lucknow to deliberate on the pending issues related to the Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) Sports City project. Among others, the meet will be headed by Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Infrastructure and Industrial Development Corporation, YEIDA CEO RK Singh and other senior officials will attend the meeting along with the key state representatives.
“The state government will discuss and decide the roadmap for this project, in which thousands of homebuyers have invested over the years. The authority will execute those decisions accordingly,” said RK Singh, CEO, YEIDA.
For more than 14 years, the project has been stuck with a series of delays. In March 2025, Allahabad High Court (HC) had to step in to safeguard the interests of 4,638 homebuyers who were in a dire situation due to 14 JAL projects that had been long delayed. The court instructed the Uttar Pradesh government and YEIDA to take over the control, finish the construction, and start handing over the homes that were left incomplete. Besides this, the HC also supported YEIDA's decision to revoke JAL's allocation of 1,000 hectares for the Sports City project due to the developer's failure to pay the dues. The HC said that the developer had not paid the dues worth around ₹3,621 crore till 2022 despite receiving multiple notices.
The high court, in its order delivered by Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Kshitij Shailendra on March 10, 2025, mandated the formation of a monitoring committee chaired by the principal secretary of the industrial development department to oversee project completion and ensure homebuyers are not burdened with additional financial demands. The court decision also described the time from 2020 until today as a "zero period" during which buyers are free of any kind of penalties or additional charges.
This decision resulted from the petitions of the Jaypee Sports City Welfare Society and the stakeholders that included JAL, filed in 2017, 2020, and 2021, respectively. After that, YEIDA hired Currie & Brown, a consultancy firm, to perform a detailed audit of the Sports City project. The audit had checked the number of the affected buyers, the construction status of each tower and block, and the money that would be needed to finish the halted project.
Officials familiar with the audit report revealed that the previous promoter had raised substantial loans against project assets, making the plan economically unviable and complicating execution.
Earlier, on February 12, 2020, YEIDA cancelled JAL’s allotment after the developer defaulted on payments totaling ₹3,621 crore. JAL, however, disputed this claim, maintaining that its outstanding dues were only ₹1,483 crore, and later filed a writ petition seeking more time to clear payments. The matter has been under continuous hearing at the Allahabad High Court since 2020.
Following the March 2025 ruling, the matter moved to the Supreme Court, which is currently hearing the case and has sought YEIDA’s response. YEIDA officials emphasized that there is no Supreme Court stay on the HC order, stating: “Since there is no stay on the HC order, YEIDA is proceeding with the implementation of all directives.”
In June 2025, JAL took the HC's order to the Supreme Court, which led to a temporary stoppage of a survey that YEIDA had started in May to check the completion status of apartment towers and plotted developments that had been left in the lurch. JAL had earlier blamed the stalling of these projects for lack of funds. The issue is still before the Supreme Court.
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