On Thursday, December 10, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi will lay the foundation stone for his most ambitious project — a Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) plan to redevelop Delhi’s Central Vista that is home to buildings and precincts of historic importance and heritage value, including Parliament, Rashtrapati Bhavan, the iconic North and South Block right up to India Gate.
The project has come in for enormous flak from social, environmental and legal activists with each set having their own set of complaints, but all of which centre around the opacity and hush-hush way in which the scheme is being handled.
Delhi architect Madhav Raman has been closely following the redevelopment plan ever since it was announced in September 2019.
Raman speaks with Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com pointing out the various discrepancies — legal and environmental — in the Central Vista Redevelopment Project,
— source rediff.com | Dec 07, 2020