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
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