Topic: Central Vista

Former finance secretary Ratan P Watal has been appointed the chairman of the panel, which will submit its reports or recommendations to the Housing and Urban Affairs ministry.

The apex court said that sufficient explanation has been offered by concerned authorities which justifies the change in land use of the plot from recreational area to residential.

Unexpected heavy rain had disrupted work, but pace has again picked up to ensure the Central Vista Avenue is completed in time to greet visitors for the Republic Day parade next year.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to file an affidavit on the issue of proposed change in land use of a plot where the new official residences of the Vice-President and the Prime Minister are stipulated as part of the ambitious Central Vista project in Lutyens' Delhi. The Central Vista revamp, announced in September 2019 envisages a new triangular Parliament building, with a seating capacity for 900 to 1,200 MPs, that is to be constructed by August, 2022 when the country will celebrate its 75th Independence Day. The common Central Secretariat is likely to be built by 2024 under the project that covers a 3-km stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate in the national capital. The apex court was hearing a petition challenging the change in land use of plot number one from recreational area to residential. The matter came up for hearing before a bench of Justices A M...

Modi spoke to people involved in the construction as he inspected the ongoing work. The building is part of the Central Vista project, which has faced criticism from the opposition.

The Defence ministry offices will move to two new office complexes at Africa Avenue and Kasturba Gandhi Marg. The new office complex will be inaugurated by the PM Thursday.

Under the Central Vista project, three new ministry buildings will replace IGNCA, and the institution will be given a permanent place at Jamnagar House by 2023.

The apex court declined to interfere, stating that the PIL petitioners had selectively targeted Central Vista Project amid other public projects which were allowed during lockdown.

Nehru's core template for recording history was unity, Modi’s is uniformity. But history, at best, is an 'argument'.

Delhi Waqf Board chairman Amanatullah Khan in a letter to PM Modi Thursday said apprehensions were expressed on social media that 2 mosques were 'facing demolition' due to the project.