Modi's Rs 20,000 crore worth Central Vista revamp project goes against the cardinal objective of Delhi Master Plan 2021 to decentralise government offices.
Over 86-acre area currently earmarked for recreational or public and semi-public facilities will now be used to build new Parliament House, other govt buildings.
Modi government’s plan-as-you-go strategy for Delhi’s Central Vista shows how India’s urban planners engage, without reflection, in projects harmful to society.
According to the proposed Central Vista plan, the IGNCA and nine other buildings, including Udyog Bhawan, will likely be demolished for the new common Central Secretariat.
At ThePrint's Off the Cuff, Union Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri also speaks about the govt's plans for unauthorised colonies & solid waste management.
The housing and urban affairs ministry awarded the bid to HCP Design, which was involved in the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, to rebuild govt buildings in central Delhi.
Macaulay's intent was quite different from what has been propagated by Indian leaders and public intellectuals, who love to live in their own sectarian mental chambers.
Once acquired by IAF, the medium transport aircraft (MTA) will replace both AN-32s and IL-76s, it is learnt. The idea behind the revamp is to meet modern operational needs.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
I as a common man want that area to be a tourist spot , as today or much more than that. There should be ample space to spend evenings, to visit India gate . Dont make it a high security zone, where we will not be allowed.
As per the attached picture , i don’t see any space near the India gate . Now India gate is a tourist spot as well as people gather there for any event . And the vast space on the sides of Rajpath is the best place to spend evening with family . Without all this , what is this for . After making the government offices there , normal citizens will not be allowed there. Also where will they conduct the Republic day parade ?
If Sonia is opposing it, that is reason enough for India to embrace it. You can take it to the bank that anything that Sonia says and does is anti- India or anti- national.
Difficult for Gandhis and their coterie to leave the multi trillion dollor business that is India. They will do it at any cost, even if its sleeping with the enemies. Who ever is opposing this is directly or indirectly linked with Gandhis.
for the last thirty years I have been regularly visiting Iconic Parliament building built during colonial power. till today, it housed 545 Mps in Loksabha and 245 Mps in Rajya Sabha. by 2026, the Indian Parliament /Legislatures across the country is going to be reorganised proportionate to the burgeoning population, as a result of which, another 400 Mps are likely to be added to the existing strength in Loksabha and 120 Mps in Rajya Sabha. With the increase in strength of Mps, it is humangously difficult to accommodate the rising nos in Mps in the existing building. Hence, it is sine qua non to implement and executive Central Vistas whatever may be the budget. a new central vistas with state of the infrastructure is the dire need for a modern India. I welcome wholeheartedly welcome this ambitious project. India is capable of addressing and reddressing any pandemic with its already established medical infrastructure. COVID is nothing to do with Central Vistas.
We need more of this beautifully planned and designed structures. If you want internal tourism in INDIA than it is imperative that places like this are created all over INDIA. So families can visit and enjoy this stress blisters . You be party to poverty tourism along with your MADAM. Also good luck with shaheen baag tourism
This article would perfectly fit for print in Congress Sandesh, not in Print….afterall it’s still some distance from the Congress mouthpiece!
Author seems to be waiting for an opportune time like covid scare to sell his wares…when he could not for so long. As someone pointed out it could be a case of sour grapes.
You the print, we all Indians know that how negative propaganda is Run through your this media..it’s shamefull that your hatered towards Modi and BJP govt has increased so much that you are writing and publishing everything that can defame/negate govt work.But you bastrads be assured that we common people of India are well awared who is right and who are wrong..Jai Hind!!
Nice to see so many Bhakts coming to defend Gobiji’s plans. what does he care anyway for the poor? as long as his megalomania is satisfied, nothing else matters.
Hard to believe, that the article was written by an Architect…All along I thought some 5th grader has written .
Sum of 20,000 Cr was mentioned. Im sure, if we add up the amount spent to maintain the lavish lifestyle of just 1 blue bloded G family, it’ll exceed the 20 k Cr !!
Like this all the Indians wants the Congress and its chief to deposit into public exchequer the looted public money from Bofors, National Herald, Coal allocation, 2G scam etc money etc etc. This will be enough to buy the required medical aid kits to our India and other needy countries. Will she do it now?
It’s not about criticise about Modi or supporting Modi.Think rationally it is time to invest 20000 crore for the construction that is already existing when country economy is under deep slowdown and leads to recession due to covid 19.Every thinking from religious line is not good .Blindly criticising govt and blindly criticising opposition is not good .
Mr Modi knows what’s best for Bharat ,just be quite and and rest
Delhi was never built to accomodate 3 crore people which presently populate Delhi. Neither did Lutyen planned and made Central Vista for all centuries to come.
While we may question the design and the designer selected for the redevelopment of Central Vista, fact is that Central Vista is wholly inadequate for present requirement of the Government of India and therefore the Prime Minister Modi is absolutely right in proposing this ambitious redevelopment of the Central Vista.
Armchair critics of the proposed redevelopment of Central Vista must visit New Delhi to understand the inadequate and disproportionate utilisation of this space as of today and perhaps only then will understand that this proposed redevelopment of Central Vista is not only required to be undertaken but must be undertaken now.
Don’t run around with such baseless writer. Everytime I open my Google News at UAE there is always negative about Modi even If he says light a candle there will be picture of fire crackers..
Every ruler wants his imprint. A megalomaniac like Modi wants an imprint by going at the heart of Delhi which is the Lutyens architecture. And don’t expect it to be eye pleasing. It will only be spectacular like the Vallabhai statue. And let’s not talk about costs. Anything goes for the leader.
Yes. Every ruler wants an imprint. The first PM with his scientific temper and obsession with European models concentrated filth and squalour in urban centres. Dharavi in Mumbai is Jawaharuddin’s magnum opus for our finance capital. Decadence in every segment is his contribution. The IIT s and IIMs that he set up! And, we import rail bogies from a small country like Korea. The list of our imports id baffling. It is to Nehru, Indira, Rajiv and Sonia credit that we import domestic items from China. We can write a voluminous book on the contribution of these four rulers and their print on India….its institutions and individuals.
Later his daughter endorsed corruption and ensured its proliferation to grassroots. The pilot in a hurry popularised the cell phone. Nothing else. Sonia imprinted SG … Scams Galore!!!
A leader who’s making citizens under starvation one and another form of lost vision should be scrapped. First see the poor hungry Indians then talk about a Name print do realize the facts
As a liberal i can say that Modi is not even close to being a megalomaniac like gandhi’s who have built their statutes in almost every city in india, named all the buildings, airports, universities and hospitals after themselves. If someone comes up with a new plan, criticise and give some alternatives but to call someone megalomaniac because they are trying to revamp the old infrastructure is plain dumbassery. And by the way Heart of Delhi is Red Fort and Chandni Chowk not lutyens delhi.
I never was in favour of Statue of Unity for its cost but it is an architectural wonder and beautifully constructed. Seems like you are one of those who suffer from Modi Derangement syndrome.
I dont see a sonia or rahul statue. Just because someone built a statue of a PM after his death to commemorate him doesnt make him a megalomaniac like modi
The author has very clearly written that, ” …….. Modi’s grand Central Vista project in New Delhi has coalesced around the view that it should be suspended, and the budget re-allocated for more pressing and urgent health requirements” This should make it clear to anybody that the amount is budgeted! Also the it is gazetted. “When all resources must be mopped up to meet this COVID-19 challenge a Gazette notification is issued for the Rs 20,000 crore Central Vista project.” So what is your problem? The matter is also discussed and opposed i the parliament. Are you saying that Modi’s ruling BJP discusses something in the parliament that doesn’t even exists, wasting time during this COVID-19 pandemic? YOU ARE SO IGNORANT, YOU ARE SAYING “Something that is not happening”, WHEN IT IS HAPPENING FULL BLAST!
Print is a respected site to read, what I am reading is a political response to an urban planning project, given that the writer is an architect, I am wondering why buildings dated 100 years back should not be demolished to move into modern structures. Is this guy living in the same house his grandfather built 100 years back.
How old is white house? How oldbis Buckingham Palace… Did you comment after a serious thought or simply comment to defend the emperor as bhakts generally do!
In the name of modernity should we demolish our iconic architetural marvels dotted all over delhi and that too just to quench the thirst of a maveric megalomaniac. absolutely sensless project and sheer waste of public money
All her five points were bs. It is like one woman says, I have cut off my husbands budget. Other woman retaliates that I will cut of my husbands budget twice than you. Sufferers are poor husbands. In the same manner, Sonia Gandhi was unhappy about 30% reduction in her and tell Modi should not travel abroad. Tit for tat. She lost her senses and now this writer comes with another theory.
Irrespective of the budget figures and wishes of anyone, this remaking will destroy the beautiful colonial-era architecture. Of course, do we expect the mercantile BJP of Modi and Amit Shah to have good taste and judgement?
We are tired of what Gandhi family wants
If this project has given Gandhi or non Hindu name then it will be ok
Isn’t it ?
…And where did you get this figure of 20000 cr. Please share your source of information.
Any govt document indicating the approximate cost or an allocation in any budget papers.
So none of the money 20000 cr is going to this plan. Please don’t be naive and write articles on
Something that is not happening.
You write “ At a time when India is confronting serious economic problems, reinforced by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the clamour to suspend such profligacy is certainly justified, not only in economic terms but on moral and ethical grounds as well. But from an architectural and urban design perspective, should the Rs 20,000 crore, which the Central Vista revamp project is estimated to cost, be squandered to commit urban harakiri and make a banal lifestyle statement? No, the plan should be scrapped.”
None of this that you have written is happening.
Since there are no funds allotted and no estimate on any official document that says 20000 cr is the approximate cost.
So please don’t get swayed by media reports.
Dive in to do some research and you will find that Mrs Gandhi like you, has Also gone by media reports. Sad
The Central Vista is what Modi needs for his watsapp election campaign for 2024!!
It’s everything that symbolises the man.. ask not what the government will give up for you.. but what you will give up for the ‘national interest.’ Stand in queue for Your own money.. walk a few thousands kms because the govt didn’t see the obvious coming.. your right to ask for protective great when you’re on the battle frontlines.. in the realm of all you sacrifice, what’s public space?! As far as Modi is concerned, it never belonged to you anyway!!
In good times, this waste of public money is bad enough.. in these times of the virus, it’s a crime.
For once, Modi must sacrifice his ego for the nation!! Thoda commute kar lo, jaisa hum sab karte!!
Bhakts will be bhakts. The moment they see Sonia Gandhi’s name, anything that is associated with it becomes anathema.
We must see the merits of the article and see nothing wrong in reevaluating the Project from urban planning and environment point of view
I as a common man want that area to be a tourist spot , as today or much more than that. There should be ample space to spend evenings, to visit India gate . Dont make it a high security zone, where we will not be allowed.
As per the attached picture , i don’t see any space near the India gate . Now India gate is a tourist spot as well as people gather there for any event . And the vast space on the sides of Rajpath is the best place to spend evening with family . Without all this , what is this for . After making the government offices there , normal citizens will not be allowed there. Also where will they conduct the Republic day parade ?
A revamp, nay an overhaul, will be a good idea. Too many silly-looking buildings there, starting with the monstrosity that is the parliament.
If Sonia is opposing it, that is reason enough for India to embrace it. You can take it to the bank that anything that Sonia says and does is anti- India or anti- national.
You are a donkey
Difficult for Gandhis and their coterie to leave the multi trillion dollor business that is India. They will do it at any cost, even if its sleeping with the enemies. Who ever is opposing this is directly or indirectly linked with Gandhis.
for the last thirty years I have been regularly visiting Iconic Parliament building built during colonial power. till today, it housed 545 Mps in Loksabha and 245 Mps in Rajya Sabha. by 2026, the Indian Parliament /Legislatures across the country is going to be reorganised proportionate to the burgeoning population, as a result of which, another 400 Mps are likely to be added to the existing strength in Loksabha and 120 Mps in Rajya Sabha. With the increase in strength of Mps, it is humangously difficult to accommodate the rising nos in Mps in the existing building. Hence, it is sine qua non to implement and executive Central Vistas whatever may be the budget. a new central vistas with state of the infrastructure is the dire need for a modern India. I welcome wholeheartedly welcome this ambitious project. India is capable of addressing and reddressing any pandemic with its already established medical infrastructure. COVID is nothing to do with Central Vistas.
We need more of this beautifully planned and designed structures. If you want internal tourism in INDIA than it is imperative that places like this are created all over INDIA. So families can visit and enjoy this stress blisters . You be party to poverty tourism along with your MADAM. Also good luck with shaheen baag tourism
This article would perfectly fit for print in Congress Sandesh, not in Print….afterall it’s still some distance from the Congress mouthpiece!
Author seems to be waiting for an opportune time like covid scare to sell his wares…when he could not for so long. As someone pointed out it could be a case of sour grapes.
You the print, we all Indians know that how negative propaganda is Run through your this media..it’s shamefull that your hatered towards Modi and BJP govt has increased so much that you are writing and publishing everything that can defame/negate govt work.But you bastrads be assured that we common people of India are well awared who is right and who are wrong..Jai Hind!!
What if we name it as ‘Rajiv Gandhi Central Vista’ !! Then that will be real development !! Or should we name this ‘Rahul Gandhi Central Vista’ ??!
Nice to see so many Bhakts coming to defend Gobiji’s plans. what does he care anyway for the poor? as long as his megalomania is satisfied, nothing else matters.
Hard to believe, that the article was written by an Architect…All along I thought some 5th grader has written .
Sum of 20,000 Cr was mentioned. Im sure, if we add up the amount spent to maintain the lavish lifestyle of just 1 blue bloded G family, it’ll exceed the 20 k Cr !!
Make way for New Grand India.
Like this all the Indians wants the Congress and its chief to deposit into public exchequer the looted public money from Bofors, National Herald, Coal allocation, 2G scam etc money etc etc. This will be enough to buy the required medical aid kits to our India and other needy countries. Will she do it now?
It’s not about criticise about Modi or supporting Modi.Think rationally it is time to invest 20000 crore for the construction that is already existing when country economy is under deep slowdown and leads to recession due to covid 19.Every thinking from religious line is not good .Blindly criticising govt and blindly criticising opposition is not good .
Mr Modi knows what’s best for Bharat ,just be quite and and rest
Delhi was never built to accomodate 3 crore people which presently populate Delhi. Neither did Lutyen planned and made Central Vista for all centuries to come.
While we may question the design and the designer selected for the redevelopment of Central Vista, fact is that Central Vista is wholly inadequate for present requirement of the Government of India and therefore the Prime Minister Modi is absolutely right in proposing this ambitious redevelopment of the Central Vista.
Armchair critics of the proposed redevelopment of Central Vista must visit New Delhi to understand the inadequate and disproportionate utilisation of this space as of today and perhaps only then will understand that this proposed redevelopment of Central Vista is not only required to be undertaken but must be undertaken now.
Don’t run around with such baseless writer. Everytime I open my Google News at UAE there is always negative about Modi even If he says light a candle there will be picture of fire crackers..
It makes perfect sense to revamp the colonial era structures to make them look native, and more fitted to the age of internet.
Every ruler wants his imprint. A megalomaniac like Modi wants an imprint by going at the heart of Delhi which is the Lutyens architecture. And don’t expect it to be eye pleasing. It will only be spectacular like the Vallabhai statue. And let’s not talk about costs. Anything goes for the leader.
Yes. Every ruler wants an imprint. The first PM with his scientific temper and obsession with European models concentrated filth and squalour in urban centres. Dharavi in Mumbai is Jawaharuddin’s magnum opus for our finance capital. Decadence in every segment is his contribution. The IIT s and IIMs that he set up! And, we import rail bogies from a small country like Korea. The list of our imports id baffling. It is to Nehru, Indira, Rajiv and Sonia credit that we import domestic items from China. We can write a voluminous book on the contribution of these four rulers and their print on India….its institutions and individuals.
Later his daughter endorsed corruption and ensured its proliferation to grassroots. The pilot in a hurry popularised the cell phone. Nothing else. Sonia imprinted SG … Scams Galore!!!
A leader who’s making citizens under starvation one and another form of lost vision should be scrapped. First see the poor hungry Indians then talk about a Name print do realize the facts
As a liberal i can say that Modi is not even close to being a megalomaniac like gandhi’s who have built their statutes in almost every city in india, named all the buildings, airports, universities and hospitals after themselves. If someone comes up with a new plan, criticise and give some alternatives but to call someone megalomaniac because they are trying to revamp the old infrastructure is plain dumbassery. And by the way Heart of Delhi is Red Fort and Chandni Chowk not lutyens delhi.
I never was in favour of Statue of Unity for its cost but it is an architectural wonder and beautifully constructed. Seems like you are one of those who suffer from Modi Derangement syndrome.
I dont see a sonia or rahul statue. Just because someone built a statue of a PM after his death to commemorate him doesnt make him a megalomaniac like modi
The author has very clearly written that, ” …….. Modi’s grand Central Vista project in New Delhi has coalesced around the view that it should be suspended, and the budget re-allocated for more pressing and urgent health requirements” This should make it clear to anybody that the amount is budgeted! Also the it is gazetted. “When all resources must be mopped up to meet this COVID-19 challenge a Gazette notification is issued for the Rs 20,000 crore Central Vista project.” So what is your problem? The matter is also discussed and opposed i the parliament. Are you saying that Modi’s ruling BJP discusses something in the parliament that doesn’t even exists, wasting time during this COVID-19 pandemic? YOU ARE SO IGNORANT, YOU ARE SAYING “Something that is not happening”, WHEN IT IS HAPPENING FULL BLAST!
Didn’t get the contract or any associated crumbs eh!!!
Will it be very welcome and timely, if it is named after Rajiv Gandhi?
Print is a respected site to read, what I am reading is a political response to an urban planning project, given that the writer is an architect, I am wondering why buildings dated 100 years back should not be demolished to move into modern structures. Is this guy living in the same house his grandfather built 100 years back.
How old is white house? How oldbis Buckingham Palace… Did you comment after a serious thought or simply comment to defend the emperor as bhakts generally do!
In the name of modernity should we demolish our iconic architetural marvels dotted all over delhi and that too just to quench the thirst of a maveric megalomaniac. absolutely sensless project and sheer waste of public money
All her five points were bs. It is like one woman says, I have cut off my husbands budget. Other woman retaliates that I will cut of my husbands budget twice than you. Sufferers are poor husbands. In the same manner, Sonia Gandhi was unhappy about 30% reduction in her and tell Modi should not travel abroad. Tit for tat. She lost her senses and now this writer comes with another theory.
Irrespective of the budget figures and wishes of anyone, this remaking will destroy the beautiful colonial-era architecture. Of course, do we expect the mercantile BJP of Modi and Amit Shah to have good taste and judgement?
We are tired of what Gandhi family wants
If this project has given Gandhi or non Hindu name then it will be ok
Isn’t it ?
…And where did you get this figure of 20000 cr. Please share your source of information.
Any govt document indicating the approximate cost or an allocation in any budget papers.
So none of the money 20000 cr is going to this plan. Please don’t be naive and write articles on
Something that is not happening.
You write “ At a time when India is confronting serious economic problems, reinforced by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the clamour to suspend such profligacy is certainly justified, not only in economic terms but on moral and ethical grounds as well. But from an architectural and urban design perspective, should the Rs 20,000 crore, which the Central Vista revamp project is estimated to cost, be squandered to commit urban harakiri and make a banal lifestyle statement? No, the plan should be scrapped.”
None of this that you have written is happening.
Since there are no funds allotted and no estimate on any official document that says 20000 cr is the approximate cost.
So please don’t get swayed by media reports.
Dive in to do some research and you will find that Mrs Gandhi like you, has Also gone by media reports. Sad
Andhabhaktu in which world you are living our Chokidar Pradhan Sevak has said that please study.
Don’t call Modi’s fan as andhbhakt they are not blind or bhakts
I Can suggest you new world you can call them dady because baap baap hota he bachhe
Please check notification by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Whats app forwards should not be the sole source of information.
20,000 Cr budget is indeed true, otherwise these reporters would be behind bars for spreading mis-communication. Rest, is upon readers willingness to accept and respect facts:
https://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2020/03/24/amid-covid-19-Centres-nod-for-rs-20000-cr-central-vista-revamp-raises-eyebrows.html
Perfect reply.
The way print criticises Modi govt decision in words is totally biased.
Please………..we are tired of what “The Gandhis” want.
Fade away with dignity.
The Central Vista is what Modi needs for his watsapp election campaign for 2024!!
It’s everything that symbolises the man.. ask not what the government will give up for you.. but what you will give up for the ‘national interest.’ Stand in queue for Your own money.. walk a few thousands kms because the govt didn’t see the obvious coming.. your right to ask for protective great when you’re on the battle frontlines.. in the realm of all you sacrifice, what’s public space?! As far as Modi is concerned, it never belonged to you anyway!!
In good times, this waste of public money is bad enough.. in these times of the virus, it’s a crime.
For once, Modi must sacrifice his ego for the nation!! Thoda commute kar lo, jaisa hum sab karte!!