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By Geeta Pandey
image captionRajpath has been a huge draw for Delhi residents and tourists over the decades
Rajpath (King s Avenue), in the centre of the Indian capital, is to Delhi ites what Central Park is to New Yorkers, or the Champs-Elysees to Parisians.
The manicured lawns on either side of the wide ceremonial boulevard are a place for thousands to gather to soak up the winter sun or have an ice-cream on summer evenings.
But the 3km (1.8 mile)-long road, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, at one end to the India Gate war memorial at the other, now resembles a massive dust bowl.
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Indian Government’s ‘Vanity’ Project in New Delhi Invites Public Wrath
Amid a pandemic crisis and decimated economy, many question the government’s insistence on a redevelopment project in the capital.
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May 24, 2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second left, accompanied by other leaders leaves after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 3, 2020.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA – The construction of a $2.8 billion “Central Vista Redevelopment Project” in the heart of capital city New Delhi by India’s Hindu nationalist government has triggered a public backlash.
Launched in 2019, and spread over 86 acres, the four-year project aims to revamp a core administrative area that hosts a galaxy of iconic government buildings. It also envisages the creation of a common Central Secretariat housing all ministries under one roof, a fresh Parliament build
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