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Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition connected Friday (February 13, 2026) inaugurate the new Prime Minister’s Office ‘Seva Teerth’, and the Central Secretariat buildings, Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2. The PM volition besides preside implicit the past gathering of the Union Cabinet astatine the South Block.
An epoch volition extremity erstwhile the iconic North and South Blocks are vacated.
The North and South Blocks initially housed the British government, and were taken implicit by the authorities of autarkic India successful 1947. They were designed by Herbert Baker, a modern of Edwin Lutyens, the designer of ‘Lutyen’s Delhi’.
The South Block houses the Prime Minister’s Office, arsenic good arsenic the offices of the Union Ministries of External Affairs and Defence. The North Block houses the Ministries of Home Affairs, and Finance.
The Prime Minister’s Office volition beryllium moved connected Friday (February 13, 2026) to the recently built ‘Seva Teerth’ complex.
‘Seva Teerth’ volition besides location the National Security Council Secretariat and the Cabinet Secretariat, each of which were antecedently situated crossed antithetic locations.
Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2 location respective cardinal Ministries, including the Ministries of Finance, Defence, Health and Family Welfare, Education, Corporate Affairs, Culture, Law and Justice, Information and Broadcasting, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers, and Tribal Affairs.
Both gathering complexes diagnostic digitally integrated offices, structured nationalist interface zones, and centralised reception facilities. Designed successful accordance with 4-Star GRIHA standards, the complexes incorporated renewable vigor systems, h2o conservation measures, discarded absorption solutions, and high-performance gathering envelopes.
“The inauguration marks a transformative milestone successful India’s administrative governance architecture and reflects the Prime Minister’s committedness to gathering a modern, efficient, accessible and citizen-centric governance ecosystem,” an authoritative connection said here.
“For decades, respective cardinal authorities offices and Ministries functioned from fragmented and ageing infrastructure dispersed crossed aggregate locations successful the Central Vista area. This dispersion led to operational inefficiencies, coordination challenges, escalating attraction costs and sub-optimal moving environments. The caller gathering complexes code these issues by consolidating administrative functions wrong modern, future-ready facilities,” it said.
The caller complexes besides diagnostic broad information and information frameworks, including astute entree power systems, surveillance networks, and precocious exigency effect infrastructure, ensuring a unafraid and accessible situation for officials and visitors.
