naturally be a matter of pride for every indianthe government has put criticism to rest by assuring that all the significant heritage and cultural artefacts presently housed at the national museum national archives and indira gandhi national centre for the arts ignca will be carefully preserved the national museum will be relocated to the north and south blocks and is expected to have 35 times more space from the current 25500 sqm to approximately 80000 sqmthe entire central vista project is expected to be completed by 2024 necessary budgetary allocation for the project cost of about rs 13500 crore has been made in 2019 itself that brings annual expenditure to just around rs 2700 crore no additional spending is happening beyond the previously sanctioned budget covid relief activity is not getting hampered in any way the government has already allocated over rs 35000 crore for the vaccination drive in the country construction projects have been exempted from covid restrictions in all states in fact many major infrastructure projects have been in progress in the country the cashstarved maharashtra government has issued tenders for a 900crore redevelopment of the mla hostel at nariman point in mumbai recently the chhattisgarh government stalled construction work of the new raj bhavan assembly and cm house only after bjp president j p nadda pointed out the duplicity of the congress few days agocongress opposition to the project appears more about legacy than about the pandemic having named hundreds of institutions after one family they seem worried that the nehrugandhi legacy of institutionbuilding was being usurped by modis men they are ridiculing the new pm house as modi ka ghar but it was they who slyly converted the actual pm house at teen murti into the nehru memorial museum after jawaharlal nehrus demise in 1964the new central vista is not going to be the legacy of any individual or party it is the need of the hour and a matter of pride for an atma nirbhar nationram madhav is member of the national executive of the rssagainst narayani guptathe staging ground of our democracy is being bulldozed without debatethe central vista redevelopment project since mid2019 has been a race between a nimble hare clearing the fences of permissions and a motley group of tortoiseseven as the tortoises carefully listed the faults in the selection process the hare had skipped away to the bhoomi puja for the new parliament building as the tortoises got down to scrutinising this new proposal the hare nibbled the grass on the rajpath lawns and put up a board reading government land while the tortoises were dismayed at the prospect of the national museum being relocated the hare was giving brisk orders to the staff of ignca to parcel their documents and move to janpath hotel when the tortoises reached the vista they found stern notices prohibiting entry when the smallest tortoise started to write down the details that puzzled her the hare looked over the barricade and mocked her but i