Work on PM office, house, to go beyond December 2022 deadline

“The design for PMO and PMR is in its concept stage. The broad goal is to provide modern and highly functional facilities at one location, to reduce redundancies of infrastructure and improve city traffic management,” the HCP spokesperson said.

Officials say the new Parliament building is expected to be completed by the winter session of 2022. The Central Vista Avenue is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

“The North and South Blocks are currently being studied and surveyed… At present, the focus is on three buildings that have been tendered out. The designs for the rest of the buildings are being detailed,” the HCP spokesperson said.

The North and South Blocks are proposed to be converted to National Museums while the existing National Museum building is to be demolished.

On the proposed demolition of several Central government buildings under the plan, the HCP said the demolition will take place in phases.

“In the first phase, for the construction of the first three Common Central Secretariat buildings, only buildings in the IGNCA campus will be demolished,” the spokesperson said.

The IGNCA will first be shifted to Janpath Hotel and then to Jamnagar House by 2023, and the existing buildings on the IGNCA campus will be torn down to make space for the first three secretariat buildings.