NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court It is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Tuesday on a series of allegations, which have questioned several aspects, including the environmental authorization granted to the ambitious Central Vista draft. The redevelopment of Central Vista, announced in September 2019, envisages a new triangular Parliament building, with a capacity for 900 to 1,200 deputies, to be built in August 2022, when the country will celebrate its 75th Independence Day.
The common Central Secretariat is likely to be built by 2024 under the project against which several allegations have been made.
A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna will deliver the verdict on the batch of pleadings on which it had reserved its verdict on November 5 last year.
On December 7 of last year, the superior court had allowed Center to proceed with the groundbreaking ceremony for the Vista Central project on December 10 after the government assured it that no construction or demolition work would begin until the supreme court decides the pending allegations on the matter .
The Center had told the bank that there would only be one foundation-laying ceremony and that no construction, demolition or logging would take place for the project from now on.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone on December 10 last year for the new Parliament building and construction is expected to be completed in 2022 at an estimated cost of Rs 971 crore, President of Lok Sabha Om Birla he had said on December 5 of last year.
The higher court had previously said that any changes to the ground level made by authorities for the Vista Central project will be “at your own risk.”
He had made it clear that the fate of the project, which includes several new government buildings and a new House of Parliament, will depend on his decision.
On November 5, the high court had reserved its verdict on a series of allegations that have raised doubts about the ambitious project Central Vista del Centro, which covers a three-kilometer stretch from Rashtrapati Bhavan to the India Gate in Delhi of Lutyens.
The Center had previously argued in high court that the project would “save money” paid as rent to house central government ministries in the national capital.
He stated that the decision to install a new Parliament building had not been taken hastily and that no laws or regulations had been violated for the project.
The Center had also said that there was no arbitrariness or favoritism in the selection of a consultant for the project and the argument that the government could have adopted a better process cannot be grounds for scrapping the project.
Gujarat-based architecture firm HCP Designs won the consulting tender for the Central Vista remodeling project.
The high court is hearing various allegations on the matter, including that brought by activist Rajeev Suri, against various permits granted to the project by the authorities, including the go-ahead for the change in land use.
The grounds have also challenged the granting of a certificate of no objection by the Central View Committee (CVC) and also the environmental authorizations for the construction of a new building for the House of Parliament.
One of the grounds was brought against an order from the Delhi High Court which stated that Delhi Development Authority (DDA) was not required to report it prior to notifying Master Plan changes to allow for the Central Vista project.
The Divisional Bank of the Delhi High Court had suspended on February 28 an order from its single judge bench that had asked the DDA to approach the court before notifying any changes to the Master Plan to move forward with the ambitious project. from the Center to remodel Central Vista.
The order of suspension of the superior court in the direction of the single court of February 11 occurred in the intra-judicial appeal of the DDA and the Center.
The petitioners in the superior court had opposed the Central Vista project on the grounds that it involves a change in the land use of the green zone adjacent to Rajpath and Vijay Chowk for the construction of new government and parliament offices.
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