NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s new residential complex will have 10 four-story buildings with a maximum height of 12 meters, according to the latest government proposal for the remodeling of Central view.
Official sources said that “it is not a question of withdrawing” the proposal of the new Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of the Central Vista Redevelopment project, after the CPWD did not mention the same in its new proposal before a panel of experts from the Ministry of Environment and Forest.
The Central Department of Public Works (CPWD), which is executing the project, has revised the estimated cost from Rs 11,794 crore to Rs 13,450 crore.
The prime minister’s new residence will be built on a 15-acre parcel and will have 10 buildings and will have land plus three stories, CPWD said in its proposal.
The ground cover allowed at the prime minister’s new residence would be 30,351 square meters, he said, adding that a building for the Special Protection Group will be erected on a 2.50-acre parcel.
The Central Vista Redevelopment project also includes the new Vice President’s Enclave that will be built on a 15-acre site and will have five-story buildings with a maximum height of 50 feet, CPWD said in its proposal.
The VP Enclave It will have 32 buildings.
In reaction to the CPWD’s decision to remove the proposed new office of the prime minister in its latest proposal, Kanchi kohliThe legal researcher at the Center for Policy Research said that the documents presented to the Ministry of the Environment do not give any justification as to why some plots or offices have been excluded or why costs have increased despite such exclusions.
“But equally important is CPWD’s response to whether alternatives to the current proposal were considered is a ‘No’. The study of such alternatives should be done before seeking environmental clearance,” Kohli said.
CPWD’s proposal for the terms of reference, which is a step before environmental authorization, was discussed by the expert evaluation committee of the Environment Ministry (EAC) on Thursday.
The EAC had approved CPWD’s proposal to build a new Parliament Building earlier this year.
The redevelopment project for Central Vista, the nation’s electric corridor, also envisages a new triangular Parliament building, a common central secretariat, and the redevelopment of the three-kilometer-long Rajpath, from Rashtrapati Bhavan to the Gateway of India.
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