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Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday (February 13, 2026) said the caller buildings lodging the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Central Secretariat people are an important milestone successful India's travel towards 'Viksit Bharat' (developed India) and they bespeak the government's committedness to citizen-centric governance and nationalist progress.
Inaugurating the new PMO, named Seva Teerth, and 2 buildings of the Central Secretariat, called Kartavya Bhawan 1 and 2, Mr. Modi besides said that the towers person been built to fulfil the aspirations of the radical of India.
"Seva Teerth, Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2 people an important milestone successful India's travel towards Viksit Bharat. These bespeak our committedness to citizen-centric governance and nationalist progress," helium said astatine an lawsuit attended by cardinal ministers, elder bureaucrats and different officials of the cardinal government.
The premier curate said the historical structures specified arsenic the South Block and North Block, which till present location important ministries similar defence, location and concern too the PMO, were built to embody the ideals of the British Empire but the Seva Teerth and Kartavya Bhawan person been constructed to realise the aspirations of the radical of the nation.
"The decisions made present volition service arsenic the instauration for advancing the ambitions of 140 crore citizens, alternatively than reflecting the volition of a monarch. With this spirit, I dedicate Seva Teerth and Kartavya Bhawan to the radical of the country," helium said.
Mr. Modi said that aft Independence, galore important decisions shaping the nation’s aboriginal were made and cardinal policies were developed wrong buildings specified arsenic the South Block and North Block. However, it is important to retrieve that these structures were primitively built arsenic symbols of the British, helium said.
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He said India’s superior moved from Kolkata to buildings connected Raisina Hill that were built according to the wishes of the British royalty. As the federation moves towards a Viksit Bharat, it is captious that India sheds each hint of assemblage mindset, helium said.
The premier curate said that connected the travel towards a developed India, it is perfectly indispensable that India moves forward, liberated from the mentality of slavery. “It is unfortunate that adjacent aft Independence, symbols of slavery person continued to beryllium carried here,” helium said.
Mr. Modi said today, everyone is witnessing the instauration of a caller past and this day, February 13, is becoming a witnesser to a caller opening successful India’s travel of development.
“The scriptures person accorded large value to Vijaya Ekadashi. On this day, immoderate resoluteness with which 1 moves guardant is definite to bring victory. Today, we are each entering the Seva Teerth and Kartavya Bhawan with the resoluteness to physique a developed India. The divine blessing to beryllium victorious successful our extremity is with us,” helium said.
PM Modi reiterated that the Race Course Road, wherever the premier minister’s residence is located, was renamed Lok Kalyan Marg and this was not lone a alteration of sanction but it was besides an effort to alteration the mindset of powerfulness into a tone of service.
“The inaugural to rename is not simply a alteration of words; down each these efforts lies the aforesaid ideological thread — the autarkic individuality of autarkic India. A people escaped from the shackles of slavery,” helium said.
On the occasion, the premier curate besides released a commemorative postage stamp and a coin connected which the caller building, Seva Teerth, is inscribed.
