Parliament, Central Secretariat may get a new look on 75th Independence Day

The government is yet to arrive at the estimated cost for the project

Current Affairs :-On the off chance that things work out as expected, the focal managerial locale in the core of the capital could get another look, with included greatness, in the following couple of years.

The legislature is chipping away at modernizing the focal authoritative region at the capital — an arrangement that incorporates setting up a progressively gaudy Parliament fabricating, another focal secretariat complex and redevelopment of the focal vista.

While the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MOHUA) coasted a solicitation for proposition for a similar a week ago, it has additionally welcomed engineering firms for the remainder of the two tasks. A pre-offered meeting has been held by service authorities with a few engineering firms on Thursday. Sources said the administration will spurn a worldwide delicate for a great undertaking by mid-October.

The administration is yet to land at the assessed expense for the task, sources in the service said a lion’s share of it will be met through MOHUA’s assets.

“When finished, we will spare over Rs 1,000 crore a year from office rentals and upkeep”, a senior service authority said.

The arrangement envelops building another Parliament complex or redevelopment of the current structure by August 2022. It plans to hold an extraordinary session on August 15, 2022, denoting the 75th commemoration of India’s freedom — in the new Parliament building, exceptionally set sources at the MOHUA said.

By chance, a month ago Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to modernize the Parliament, following a comparative call from VP and executive of Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu.

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