This will alert our moderators to take actionDelhi Master Plan change paves way for Central Vista developmentNEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday notified change in land use in Master Plan for Delhi 2021 paving way for redevelopment of Copyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved.

Both the buildings flank the The terms 'North Block' and 'South Block' are often used to refer to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of External Affairs respectively. The most prominent feature of the plan, aside from its diagonal road pattern, was the Rajpath, a broad central avenue that in present-day New Delhi stretches westward from the National Stadium, through the All India War Memorial arch (popularly called the India Gate), to the Central Secretariat buildings and the Presidential House (Rashtrapati Bhavan). Built in the 1910s, it is home to some of the most important ministries of the Cabinet of India.

Situated at Raisina Hill, New Delhi, the Secretariat buildings are two blocks of symmetrical buildings (North Block and South Block) on opposite sides of the great axis of Rajpath, and flanking the Rashtrapati Bhavan (President's House).

A report by PTI says that on September 2, 2019, the government had floated a request for proposal for the "development or redevelopment of Parliament Building, Common Central Secretariat and Central Vista." NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday notified change in land use in Master Plan for Delhi 2021 paving way for redevelopment of Central Vista and construction of a new Parliament building and common secretariat. For reprint rights: Delhi Master Plan change paves way for Central Vista developmentUnder opposition attack, Centre to make all Central Vista plans publicSC refuses to stay Central Vista redevelopment projectSupreme Court refuses to entertain plea against Central Vista projectAny change at ground level for Central Vista project will be at authorities' risk: Supreme CourtFormer bureaucrats raise concerns over Central Vista revamp project in letter to PM After the capital of India moved to Delhi, a temporary secretariat building was constructed in a few months in 1912 in The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent Much of the building is in classical architectural style, yet it incorporated from The style of architecture used in Secretariat Building is unique to Raisina Hill. The Secretariat Building or Central Secretariat is where the Cabinet Secretariat is housed, which administers the Government of India. The state government earlier indicated that the new secretariat which would come up in about four lakh sq-ft would cost around Rs 400 crore and it had decided to equip the new Secretariat complex with state-of-the-art connectivity and other features. The colour scheme is reversed while the roof of Union Building is covered with red tiles, in secretariat red sandstone is used in the ground floor walls only, the rest is the same pale sandstone.The Secretariat Building houses the following ministries:

The secretariat buildings were built in the designs of the imposition of superiority of the white masters over the natives. The buildings designed by the Edwin Lutiyen and Herbert Baker. The north and south blocks were introduced as the two secretariat buildings when the british relocated the government offices to north and south blocks in New Delhi. In front of the main gates on buildings are the four "dominion columns", given by Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Building on Raisina Hill, New Delhi, India which houses the Cabinet Secretariat At the time of their unveiling in 1930, India was also supposed to become a The North Block catching rays of the early morning sun. This is the main east-west axis; it divides New Delhi into two parts, with a large shopping and business district, Connaught Place, in the north and extensive residential areas in the south. The Secretariat Building, with North Block (left) and South Block (right), view looking towards Prior to coming to India, Baker had an established practice in South Africa over twenty years and designed various prominent buildings there, especially the But the similarities between the two building show a clear influence of the former, especially in the basic structure of two wings and colonnaded balconies at the end with almost identical symmetrical bell towers. Both buildings have a similar symmetrical design in case of the Union Building the two wings are joined by a semi-circular colonnade, while with Secretariat building, the North and South Blocks are separated and face each other. Choose your reason below and click on the Report button. New Secretariat Building The West Bengal Government's new Secretariat on Hastings Street, Calcutta: The building was planned according to the modern trend in designs of office buildings and architecture such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the Ministry of Education building in Rio de Janeiro. …