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 ¨C which is overseeing the project ¨C 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.