A slew of developments across all sectors has given a new direction to India’s overall growth. It has been challenging eight years for the BJP government, but many heights have been conquered.
The BJP Government has completed eight years at the Centre, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with many achievements and promises to achieve the unfinished goals in the next few years. In the last eight years, it has dealt with issues in India that have also plagued the governments worldwide.
However, the Modi government infused the importance of being ‘Atmanirbhar’ amongst the Indians, which helped the government achieve success over many challenges. The topmost is developing the made in India vaccine to combat Covid.
During the last eight years Modi government has created an ecosystem for 1) Developing ease of doing business, 2) ease of living, 3) Youthled growth, 4) better health care, 5) enhanced infrastructure, 6) women’s growth-oriented policies, 7) farmer welfare, 8) strengthening national security, 9) making north-east a growth engine, 10) serving the poor with numerous direct benefit transfer schemes, 11) managing an economy facing a continuous onslaught, 12) enhancing the cultural heritage of the country, 13) growth of tech powered India and 14) taking a leadership position in the global fight to save the environment and developing sustainability.
India @75 is young. It has the highest youth population in the world. The youth in any country have dreams and aspirations, and the Indian youth is no different. Prime Minister Narendra Modi perhaps understands a bit more about the Indian youth than many in this country.
So, when his government decided to build Central Vista, there were strong views against it, and criticism against it still continues. But each criticism was countered by the government with a rationale and a detailed explanation.
The decision was transparent and reflected the need of the hour. As Prime Minister Modionce said, “Today, when we are focusing on ease of living and ease of doing business, modern infrastructure plays an equally important role in this. This is the spirit at the core of the work being done today related to Central Vista.”
Introspection is healthy for an individual or a group, political or business. Similarly, the country’s infrastructure too needs to be relooked at some stage. It helps repair or replace the structure and build a new foundation to meet the current requirements. No doubt that too would be replaced someday in future.
“If the old Parliament House gave direction to post-independence India, the new building would become a witness to the creation of – AatmaNirbhar Bharat,” highlighted Modi on various platforms. Officials in the Ministry of
Housing and Urban Affairs point to the written response the Minister Hardeep Singh Puri gave in Lok Sabah on February 06, 2020. He indicated that “The Parliament building was completed in 1927 and cannot accommodate the present-day requirements of the Parliament including providing independent chambers to Members of Parliament.”
Offices of the Central Government are located in different places, impacting the efficiency of functioning of Ministries. Many of these buildings have outlived their lives. Therefore, in order to meet the requirements of the Parliament, get all offices of the Central Government Secretariat in one place and improve the Central vista as a world-class public place, the proposal for development/ redevelopment of such buildings of the vista has been decided.
In another written reply, on September 22, 220, Puri pointed out that “In the current economic scenario, the project shall generate a large number of direct and indirect employment which could be an important fulcrum for economic revival.”
The redevelopment of Central Vista Master Plan was conceived in September 2019, many months earlier than the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The Central Vista development/redevelopment plan is a generational infrastructure investment project involving multiple projects spread over six years.The planning and implementation of the Central Vista project have been following all the relevant procedures required at every stage of the project .
Environmental sustainability is at the core of the Central Vista project, with a comprehensive plan to use centralised systems and infrastructure, promote the use of public transport and have upgradeable technology, systems and services.