Central Vista Curtain Raiser: Unveiling Democracy's New Face | Hardeep Singh Puri & Bimal Patel

Noting that the existing Parliament building is "unsafe", Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Saturday asserted that construction of the new one and redevelopment of the Central Vista Avenue, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, will be completed in a time-bound manner.
Both these projects are being executed as part of the Modi government's ambitious Central Vista redevelopment plan.
Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2021, Puri said that the existing building, which doesn't have the capacity to accommodate more parliamentarians, was never designed to be Parliament and it was a council house of a colonial power.
"The number of members (parliamentarians) has been increasing since we became an Independent country. So, there have been a lot of internal adjustments and new facilities have been added...from a purely structural point of view, it is an unsafe building.
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