Amid COVID Crisis, Centre's Rs 20,000-Crore Central Vista Project Declared Essential Service

While India is struggling to tackle the second COVID wave, with tumbling health infrastructure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's Central Vista project has been permitted to continue as an ※essential service§, Scroll.in has reported.

Delhi, which is in its second week of lockdown, reported 20,201 cases and 380 deaths on Tuesday.

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According to Scroll, the Central Public Works Department 每 which is overseeing the project 每 wrote to the Delhi Police to allow the contractors to ※ferry their workers to and fro from their labour camp at Sarai Kale Khan through their own buses during curfew period.§

The contract for the project has been given to Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Private Limited.

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The project covers an area as large as 50 football fields. India will get a new parliament building.

The current 94-year-old structure from the British colonial era, will become a museum.