Jamshedpur, Sept. 15: After nearly 30 years, steel city lawyers will find a cosy corner to chill out after grilling court sessions.

The Dhalbhum Club, located at Aambagan in Sakchi, which till 1973 used to be a home away from home for legal eagles, will once again echo with the banter and heated discussions of lawyers.

The building, housing the labour court, will soon be re-modelled into an exclusive club for lawyers.

The labour court will be shifted to the old civil court complex tentatively by the end of this month. The building had been rented out to the labour court for the past three decades.

According to sources, the process of shifting the labour court has started and the court authorities have sent representation to the state government to get things moving.

The club comprises a small building with three rooms and a main hall in the centre of a four-acre plot at Aambagan.

Built in 1931, the building still stands in its original form. Run by a trust, the Dhalbhum Club served as an after-work meeting place for lawyers.

But gradually, the retreat where lawyers, judicial magistrates and occasionally judges, met to unwind, started losing charm.

Finally, the trustees decided to let the building out to the state government to run the labour court.

Advocate Shyamal Chowdhury, one of the trustees, told The Telegraph that the Dhalbhum Club will once again become a recreational centre for lawyers.

He said the building has to be renovated before being used as a club. ?The Dhalbhum Club?s has to be restored to its former glory. We will renovate the building and the sprawling land around it,? Chowdhury said.

Chowdhury said the Jamshedpur Bar Association?s executive body has taken initiative in reviving the club.

When contacted, Jamshedpur Bar Association president M.P. Banerjee said the bar has an ambitious plan to upgrade the club, but before doing anything, they would have to select two more trustees for the club trust.

?Advocates Shyamal Chowdhury, Ram Kumar and Tika Ram Manjhi were the three trustees, but now Shyamal Chowdhury is the sole surviving trust member,? Banerjee said.

The association president said they plan to develop the club in such a way that it can be used as an entertainment centre with scope for income generation, but the decision is subject to the approval of the Bar Association?s executive committee.