The Gulmohar Sports-cum-Community Centre has its own unique history. It was on March 7, 1982, that a Sponsoring Committee for the Centre was set up with three representatives from each of the four parent house building cooperative societies - Delhi Union of Journalists Co-op. House Building Society Ltd., Times of India Officers’ Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., PTI Employees Cooperative House Building Society Ltd. and Press Association Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. When the Centre approached the DDA for allotment of land, the DDA made it mandatory that only the four societies were entitled to take allotment at a nominal price.