The government has set a deadline for Prime Ministers’new official home. PM’s new palace is to be built by December 2022, meanwhile,the country’s health system crawls to its feet due to a lack of medicalsupplies. The Central Vista Project is designated as an ‘essential service’ sothat lockdown does not limit the construction.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ordered to rebuild someparts of New Delhi, and it was estimated that this project will cost billions.Meanwhile, the country is struggling with the devastating second wave ofcoronavirus and is pleading for help abroad.
The project covers an area as large as 50 footballfields. India will get a new parliament building and the present 94-years-oldbuilding, built during the British Raj will become a museum.
The construction of a new official home for the Prime Ministeris given priority along with headquarters of the Special Protection Group whichis exclusively dedicated to the PM’s security and an executive enclave forbureaucrats.
The government of India is spending 20,000 crores onconstructing buildings whereas National Capital Delhi is even running out ofcrematories and burial halls. Patients are dying due to a shortage of oxygen,hospital beds, ventilators, and other medical facilities. Several states haverun out of vaccines, failing to start Phase III of vaccination.
Unfortunately, frontline workers are also struggling toget treatment after testing positive for Covid-19. People are losing theirlives due to wrong and delayed decisions made by the government.
Several countries are coming forward to help India in oneway or another, however, the Indian government still finds Central Vista moreessential instead of using the money on oxygen supply, vaccines, and othermedical facilities.
Opposition is continuously slamming the government forthe decision and asking to divert the Central Vista Project Fund into the Covidrelief fund. Recently, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had tweeted, “CentralVista- not essential. Central Govt. with a vision- essential.”