Central vista Project | The bid to remake the face of the capital
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December 13, 2020 11:21 IST
The government has set in motion a plan to redevelop the administrative centre, which can cost thousands of crores
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The government has set in motion a plan to redevelop the administrative centre, which can cost thousands of crores
While the
bhoomi pujan, performed by Mr. Modi, marked the beginning of the project, construction will only start after the Supreme Court disposes of all challenges to the project that are pending before it. Ever since Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri announced the project in September 2019, activists, environmentalists, architects and Opposition leaders have questioned the need for the project, the processes for obtaining approvals for it and the costs involved.
Housing & Urban Affairs Secy launches programme of socio-economic profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries & their families AIR Pics Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra today launched a programme of Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families, as an additional component of PM SVANidhi Scheme, in the presence of representatives of various Central Ministries and State officials. Under this, a complete profile of each PM SVANidhi beneficiary and their family members will be prepared. Based on the profiled data, benefits of the various eligible Central Schemes would be extended to them for their holistic socio-economic upliftment.
The launch has been in the context of the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that PM SVANidhi scheme should not be seen merely from the perspective of extending loans to street vendors but should also be seen as an instrument for outreach to street vendors and their fami