“The priority will be to first shift those existing ministries to the new buildings…we will not make the ministries in the North and South Block move twice where they are inconvenienced with moving to temporary accommodations first,” a senior official of the Union housing and urban development ministry said on condition of anonymity. A lack of space in Delhi’s power corridor means that buildings need to be vacated in phases, and ministries moved to new structures before tearing down old offices and rebuilding them. It is this carousel of movement – with the aim of minimally disrupting key government work – that will shape the schedule of the ₹13,500 project. North and South Block, which house the Union home, finance and defence ministries, apart from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), will be the last to be vacated because these crucial departments will need to be set up in their newly built offices first. They explained that the vice president’s estate, coming up on a corner of Rafi Marg that currently houses hutments and barracks, will be the first to be taken up because offices and people working there are the easiest to relocate (and do not need to be in the Central Vista at all). The Central Vista Avenue, for which no staff needs to be relocated, will be completed by December 2021, officials said. The Central Vista Avenue, for which no staff needs to be relocated, will be completed by December 2021, officials said.(HT Archive)ĭocuments seen by HT and officials aware of the matter said that the project’s progress and completion is built around finding temporary space on the Vista itself for the people working in buildings that will be renovated. The vice president’s enclave and the new Parliament House will be the first buildings to be completed, and work on shifting the national museum to the North and South Block will commence last, in the elaborate plan for the Central Vista revamp that requires moving people and offices over the course of the next six years.
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