Central Vista Avenue Project Has Achieved 60% Physical Progress, Govt Tells Lok Sabha

Redevelopment of the Central Vista Avenue, stretching from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate and has a deadline of December 2021, has achieved 60 per cent of physical progress, the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry told the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The government, however, has planned to hold the 2022 Republic DayRepublic DayRepublic Day parade on the newly-developed Rajpath that comes under the Central Vista Avenue Redevelopment Project.

In a written reply to a question by Congress MP Manish Tewari, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore said the new Parliament building project, which is scheduled to be completed by October 2022, has achieved 35 per cent of physical progress.