Priorities: Digging Work For Central Vista Begins At Rajpath As India Continues To Fight COVID

The Vice President’s, and Prime Minister’s new residences are scheduled to be completed by May and December 2022, respectively, according to Central Public Works Department.

The Central Vista project, an estimated cost is Rs 20,000 crore development of a new power corridor in New Delhi.

The ongoing Central Vista project is being widely debated and criticised as work at the site continues at full speed even after the country's people struggling for breath due to oxygen shortage.

The Central Vista project is declared as 'essential service', by which the construction of it was exempted from the lockdown.

Redevelopment of Central Vista Avenue Project work is underway at Rajpath in full speed.

India’s opposition and activists objected to the government’s spending on the project amid sluggish economy and the coronavirus pandemic.

The government has defended the project citing the age and state of the current buildings.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court had agreed to hear a petition to stay the construction work of the central government's Central Vista project amid the surge in COVID-19 cases.

While country reported a record 4.14 lakh new Covid-19 cases on Friday taking with more than 3,900 new deaths.

The national capital is seeing the worst of the new COVID wave, with hospitals regularly sending SOS amid shortage of oxygen.