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The Union Cabinet has adopted a solution marking the shifting of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) from the imperial South Block connected Raisina Hill to the newly-constructed ‘Seva Teerth’ and termed it arsenic a measurement from the past of slavery towards the aboriginal of Viksit Bharat.
The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, met astatine South Block for the past clip connected Friday (February 13, 2026) evening, pursuing which the solution was adopted.
"Today, we consciousness blessed that the gathering of the Union Cabinet is being held for the past clip successful this enclosure of South Block. This is not simply a infinitesimal of alteration of place; it is besides a infinitesimal of the confluence of past and the future," Union curate Ashwini Vaishnaw said portion speechmaking retired the solution to reporters present connected Saturday (February 14, 2026).
"Symbolically, this is different measurement of the state from the past of slavery towards the aboriginal of 'Viksit Bharat' (Developed India). In the past years, alternatively of the civilization of 'power', the civilization of 'service' has been strengthened successful the country. Today's modulation volition further fortify these values," the solution further said.
Mr. Vaishnaw said the British had constructed the South Block and the North Block to tighten their grip implicit India, but successive governments continued to usage the buildings to tally offices station Independence.
Built during British rule, the North and South Blocks served arsenic the centre of governance aft Independence and witnessed historical decisions nether 16 premier ministers, shaping India’s emergence arsenic a secure, confident, and starring planetary economy, helium said.
Reflecting the displacement toward modern, service-oriented governance, the Cabinet resolved that these iconic buildings volition go portion of the 'Yuge-Yugeen Bharat National Museum', preserving India's civilisational bequest and hoped it volition proceed to animate generations from our thousands of years aged civilization. This depository volition observe our timeless and eternal taste practice and link our glorious past with a prosperous future, it said.
"The Union Cabinet expresses gratitude towards the Hon'ble premier minister's visionary enactment for transforming the halfway of governance from a assemblage past into the 'Seva Teerth' of caller India," the solution said.
It besides said that the North and South Blocks were constructed by the British to support India bound successful the chains of assemblage rule.
"This analyzable has witnessed and shaped galore historical events from slavery to state and past of autarkic India. This analyzable has witnessed important decisions taken by Cabinets formed nether the enactment of 16 premier ministers of the country," the solution said adding that the footsteps of Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi are connected its stairs. The steps climbed connected the stairs of this gathering person made an important publication successful taking the state to caller heights, it said.
The solution said successful the past decades galore important decisions person been taken during Cabinet meetings held successful New Delhi, inspired by the ideals of the Constitution, the mandate received from the radical and the aspirations of the nation. "Here, India’s successes were celebrated, failures were assessed, and beardown and large decisions were taken to woody with crises and challenges." "The rooms of South Block person witnessed the fearfulness of Partition, the challenges of warfare and Emergency, and deliberations connected policies during peacetime. They person experienced the agelong leap of exertion from typewriters to integer governance.
"Sitting here, respective generations of officials took decisions that brought India retired of the uncertainty instantly aft Independence and moved it guardant connected the way of stability. It is the effect of everyone's efforts that, emerging from economical challenges and crises, contiguous India stands arsenic a assured nation," the solution besides said.
It noted that India is contiguous 1 of the starring economies of the satellite and has emerged arsenic a unafraid and susceptible federation and is presenting its wide and effectual dependable connected planetary platforms.
"This spot became the inspiration tract of Minimum Government, Maximum Governance. From here, the betterment explicit received encouragement crossed the country. From here, wide-ranging reforms specified arsenic DBT, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, campaigns related to payment of the poor, Digital India, GST took shape.
"From here, courageous and delicate decisions of societal justness specified arsenic bringing down the partition of Article 370 and making a instrumentality against triple talaq were taken. From present were besides taken the decisions of surgical strike, aerial onslaught and Operation Sindoor, done which India gave a wide connection of its steadfast and assured information argumentation to the world," the solution said.
As the state moves guardant with the resoluteness of a developed future, it said, determination was a request for a modern, technological and environmentally affable bureau and a workspace that increases the productivity of each 'karmayogi' moving present and encourages his resoluteness of service.
"With this spirit, astir 95 years aft the inauguration of South Block, contiguous connected 13 February 2026, the Government of India is vacating these buildings and shifting to 'Seva Teerth' and 'Kartavya Bhavans'," the solution adopted by the furniture said.
Mr. Modi has said the caller buildings are an important milestone successful India's travel towards 'Viksit Bharat' and bespeak the government's committedness to citizen-centric governance and nationalist progress.
