The Central Vista Redevelopment Project aims to redevelop a 3 km stretch in Delhi between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate. It includes constructing a new triangular Parliament building with increased seating capacity, converting North and South Blocks into museums, and building a common Central Secretariat and SPG building. The total estimated cost is Rs. 20,000 crore over four years. A new Parliament building will be constructed first with a seating capacity of 384 for Rajya Sabha and 888 for Lok Sabha. Some criticize the large cost during the pandemic and lack of transparency and public consultation in the decision. Others argue the current building needs upgrades but simple modifications could suffice rather than new construction.
The Central Vista Redevelopment Project aims to redevelop a 3 km stretch in Delhi between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate. It includes constructing a new triangular Parliament building with increased seating capacity, converting North and South Blocks into museums, and building a common Central Secretariat and SPG building. The total estimated cost is Rs. 20,000 crore over four years. A new Parliament building will be constructed first with a seating capacity of 384 for Rajya Sabha and 888 for Lok Sabha. Some criticize the large cost during the pandemic and lack of transparency and public consultation in the decision. Others argue the current building needs upgrades but simple modifications could suffice rather than new construction.
The Central Vista Redevelopment Project aims to redevelop a 3 km stretch in Delhi between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate. It includes constructing a new triangular Parliament building with increased seating capacity, converting North and South Blocks into museums, and building a common Central Secretariat and SPG building. The total estimated cost is Rs. 20,000 crore over four years. A new Parliament building will be constructed first with a seating capacity of 384 for Rajya Sabha and 888 for Lok Sabha. Some criticize the large cost during the pandemic and lack of transparency and public consultation in the decision. Others argue the current building needs upgrades but simple modifications could suffice rather than new construction.
The Central Vista Redevelopment Project aims to redevelop a 3 km stretch in Delhi between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate. It includes constructing a new triangular Parliament building with increased seating capacity, converting North and South Blocks into museums, and building a common Central Secretariat and SPG building. The total estimated cost is Rs. 20,000 crore over four years. A new Parliament building will be constructed first with a seating capacity of 384 for Rajya Sabha and 888 for Lok Sabha. Some criticize the large cost during the pandemic and lack of transparency and public consultation in the decision. Others argue the current building needs upgrades but simple modifications could suffice rather than new construction.
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THE CENTRAL VISTA
PROJECT Development or Wastage of Money
A Brief Description The Central Vista Redevelopment Project Scheduled between 2020 and 2024, the project as of 2020 aims to revamp a 3 km (1.9 mi) long Rajpath between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate, convert North and South Blocks to publicly accessible museums by creating a new common Central Secretariat to house all ministries, a new Parliament building near the present one with increased seating capacity for future expansion, new residence and office for the Vice-President and the Prime Minister near the North Block and South Block and convert some of the older structures into museums.
The cost of the Central Vista Redevelopment project, which also includes a Common Central Secretariat and the Special Protection Group (SPG) building, has been estimated to be around ₹20,000 crore (US$260 million) spread over four years What’s New ? A new triangular building to house Parliament will be built beside the existing structure as the first building under the project. The new structure will be spread on area of 20,866 metres (68,458 ft) and will have a built-up area of 694,270 sq ft (64,500 m2), throughout four floors (16,125 m2 (173,570 sq ft) each floor) and will have a larger seating capacity than the current building as India aims to expand its parliament in 2026. The new Rajya Sabha hall will have a capacity of 384 seats while the new Lok Sabha hall will have 888 seats, with additional capacity up to 1,272 seats for hosting joint sessions. It will have digital interface systems, will consume significantly less power and serve for following 150 years while the older structure will be retained as an archeological asset of the country and will be modified for more functional spaces for parliament. The project is expected to be completed in 2024. TATA projects won the bid to construct the building at a cost of ₹861.90 crores in September 2020 and began construction in January 2021. This Redevelopment Project Will Be A Symbol Of Atmanirbhar Bharat - Prime Minister Modi Features Of The New Parliament The four-storey building will be triangular and its interiors will have three national symbols - the lotus, the peacock and the banyan tree - as its themes. The parliament building alone will cost an estimated ₹ 971 crore and will, the government hopes, be ready before India's 75th Independence Day (in 2022). However, construction cannot yet begin as a legal challenge is pending in the Supreme Court.
The New Lok Sabha ( Peacock Themed) The New Rajya Sabha ( Lotus Themed ) Other Features Of The Parliament
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The building will be equipped Special provisions will be The technological
MPs will get special with modern audio-visual made for smart displays and improvements will include provision such as communication systems biometrics to make voting language interpretation separate lounge , a easier and safe. facilities and programmable vip lounge and microphones - which will give office space . the Speaker more control in managing the House. The Problem With The Old Building The Indian Constitution permits a maximum of 552 Lok sabha Seating MPs but the state wise allocation of seats was supposed to be adjusted every 10 years based on population change in such a Capacity way that every member of parliament would roughly represent equal number of people
The other reason given is the age of the building and its seismic and structural instability. In the absence of any concrete data or report, it is hard to substantiate this. This Building more so, when one considers the fact that there are several needs a buildings of a similar nature and vintage in this area, upgrade including the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Some Counters As per reports, the population is set to stabilise by 2061 and projected to decline thereafter. This is also borne out by the Against Seating declining fertility rates. This would mean that the increased strength of parliament, if at all, would be only for 40 years. Capacity Surely a new Parliament House for this short duration is totally unnecessary.
A preliminary study of our Parliament House has shown
that the Central Hall can be repurposed as the Lok Sabha hall and, with reconfiguration of the interior layout, Why not simple accommodate up to 800 members at least, comfortably. modifications Similarly the Rajya Sabha can move to the present Lok Sabha hall. Joint or special sessions of the parliament may be organised in the Central Hall. Some More Counters
Is spending Such huge sums of money a
priority for the government when the country is in such a devastating state because of the pandemic.
Transparency were not followed
and that the decision to redevelop the Central Vista area, a heritage area, was made without public consultation Thanks
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