New Parliament building inauguration: 10 things to know about the ‘Temple of Democracy’

New Parliament building inauguration: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new Parliament building on Sunday morning and put in the historic Sengol in a particular enclosure on the proper aspect of the Speaker’s chair in the Lok Sabha chamber. The prime minister had laid the basis stone of the new Parliament building on December 10, 2020. The current Parliament building was accomplished in 1927 and is now 96 years outdated.

Here are the 10 things that you must know about the new parliament building:

1. The new building is triangular in form to guarantee optimum area utilisation, in accordance to the Central Vista Redevelopment Project’s web site. The four-storey building has a built-up space of 64,500 sq. metres. The building has three predominant gates — Gyan Dwar, Shakti Dwar, and Karma Dwar. It can have separate entrances for VIPs, MPs, and guests.
2. The new Parliament building, constructed by Tata Projects Ltd, has a grand structure corridor to showcase India’s democratic heritage, a lounge for MPs, a library, a number of committee rooms, eating areas and ample parking area. The new parliament can be ‘divyang-friendly’. 
3. The theme of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha is predicated on India’s nationwide hen (peacock) and nationwide flower (lotus) respectively. 
4. The building can comfortably seat 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha chamber. For a joint sitting of each Houses, 1,280 MPs may be accommodated in the Lok Sabha chamber.
5. The new building has been designed in an ultra-modern style, geared with the newest communication applied sciences. It will even have bigger committee rooms for enhanced effectivity.
6. Each seat in the new Parliament House is supplied with a multimedia show in entrance, offering fashionable facilities to members of Parliament. 
7. The materials used for the new building has been acquired from numerous elements of the nation. The teakwood utilized in the building was sourced from Nagpur in Maharashtra, whereas the crimson and white sandstone was procured from Sarmathura in Rajasthan.  Kesaria inexperienced stone, put in inside the Lok Sabha chamber, has been introduced from Udaipur. 
8. The furnishings was crafted in Mumbai and the supplies utilized in sculpting the Ashoka Emblem had been introduced from Aurangabad and Jaipur. It additionally used manufactured sand or M-sand from Charkhi Dadri in Haryana for making a concrete combine for development actions.
9. The 16-foot-tall bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which has been the web site of quite a few protests and gatherings by MPs, will stay on the garden between the outdated and new buildings. 
10. The new Parliament building is designed to stand up to earthquakes. As Delhi is now in Zone 4, characterised by a better earthquake danger, the new construction might be fortified to endure robust shocks in Zone 5.

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