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10 December 2020: The foundation stone of the new parliament building is laid. [9] [11] 11 July 2022: A statue of the country's national emblem is unveiled on the top of the new Parliament building. [53] [54] 28 August 2022: The main structure of the new Parliament is completed. [55] 20 May 2023: Construction is fully completed. [citation needed]
The project includes converting North and South Blocks into public museums, creating an ensemble of new secretariat buildings to house all ministries, relocating the Vice President and the Prime Minister's offices and residences near the North and South Blocks, and revamping the 3 km (1.9 mi) long Rajpath between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India ...
The Sengol (Tamil: செங்கோல்) is a gold-plated, silver sceptre that is installed in New Parliament House in New Delhi, India. [1] The sceptre was originally handed over to Jawaharlal Nehru , the first Prime Minister of India , by a Tamil Adheenam in a ceremony as a symbol of Transfer of Power on the evening before the ...
The Statue of Mahatma Gandhi is a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall bronze statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi located in the precincts of the Parliament House of India in New Delhi. Designed by Ram V. Sutar, it was inaugurated in 1993, and has become iconic as a site for protest by members of the Indian Parliament. [1]
Sunita Kohli is an Indian interior designer, architectural restorer and furniture manufacturer.She had restored and decorated Rashtrapati Bhavan (the President's House), Parliament House Colonnade (1985–1989), the Prime Minister's Office and Hyderabad House in New Delhi.
The new city contains both the Parliament buildings and government offices (many designed by Herbert Baker) and was built distinctively of the local red sandstone using the traditional Mughal style. When composing the plans for New Delhi, Lutyens planned for the new city to lie southwest of the walled city of Shahjahanbad. His plans for the ...
North Block of the Secretariat Building, New Delhi, designed by Herbert Baker. Indo-Saracenic architecture (also known as Indo-Gothic , Mughal-Gothic , Neo-Mughal ) was a revivalist architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj , and the ...
The construction of New Delhi refers to the development of Delhi into the capital of the British Raj, and creation of New Delhi in a mass-scale real estate development project before the Independence of India. [1] [2] [3] Before the project, Delhi was known of as a large slum due to the unplanned settlements of Old Delhi or Shahjahanabad. [1]