: Interview: Central Vista chief architect Bimal Patel says the project will define a ‘new India’ #IndiaNEWS The Narendra Modi government’s project to redevelop India’s central administrative

Interview: Central Vista chief architect Bimal Patel says the project will define a ‘new India’ #IndiaNEWS
The Narendra Modi government’s project to redevelop India’s central administrative area in New Delhi has been in the eye of the storm. But the project’s chief architect believes the opposition is mainly due to a lack of awareness.The Central Vista project, which aims to redevelop and expand India’s Parliament, Prime Minister’s residence and several other government buildings, has been called a symbol of apathy and has been cited as an example of misplaced priorities of the government in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.On July 12, a group from Maharastra conducted a public meeting in the capital against the project, arguing that the country “needs hospitals and not a new mansion for the Prime Minister???. In May, when the project was drawing flak over its continuation despite the catastrophic second wave of Covid-19, the Central Public Works Department prohibited photography and video recording at the construction site, making way for more harsh criticism.Quartz reached out to Bimal Patel, chief architect of the project, to address these controversies. His firm, HCP Design, Planning and Management had bagged the contract for designing Modi’s ambitious project in 2019. The estimated cost of the project is reportedly more than Rs 20,000 crore.Blaming it all to a lack of adequate information about the project, Patel said, “Central Vista will play...Read more

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