3 ccs buildings to be ready by sept, minister tells lok sabha
New Delhi, July 25 -- The construction of the new Common Central Secretariat (CCS) buildings in the Capital as part of the Central Vista redevelopment has been delayed, according to the timeline shared by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Thursday.
Replying to queries raised by Trinamool Congress MP Mala Roy, the Minister of State (MoS) for housing and urban affairs Tokhan Sahu told the Lok Sabha that the construction of the first three CCS buildings (CCS-1, CCS-2 and CCS-3) will be finished by September, with 88% of the work completed.
Sahu said that CCS-10 (28% of construction completed) is scheduled to be ready by April next year, while construction of CCS-6 and CCS-7 (1% of the work completed) is expected to be completed by October 2026.
In February, Sahu said that work on CCS-1, CCS-2 and CCS-3 were set to be completed by May. However, the buildings will now be ready in September. There was no change in the timeline of the other CCS buildings.
This is not the first time that a delay in the construction of the three CCS buildings--among a total of 10-has been announced by the government. They were originally scheduled to be ready by November 2023.
The new Parliament building and the Vice President's enclave was delayed by more than a year, with the entire Central Vista overhaul originally scheduled to be completed by 2024....
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