Old vs New Parliament building
Image Source : TwitterThe new and old buildings will work together as an ensemble.
Image Source : TwitterThe new building is spread over 65,000 sq meters against the old one which covered 24,282 sq meters
Image Source : GOIThe new will accommodate 888 parliamentarians in Lok Sabha and 300 in Rajya Sabha against the existing 543 and 250, respectively.
Image Source : GOIThe new building does not have Central Hall, so the Lok Sabha chamber will be used for joint sessions.
Image Source : GOIThe new building will have large committee rooms.
Image Source : GOIThe Constitutional Hall will be bigger than the one in the already existing Parliament.
Image Source : GOIThe Rajya Sabha is based on Lotus theme, the National Flower.
Image Source : GOILok Sabha is based on peacock theme, the National bird.
Image Source : GOIThe new building has state-of-art technology, including biometrics for ease of voting.
Image Source : GOIThe interiors of the halls will be fitted with virtual sound simulations.
Image Source : GOIThe new building is divyang-friendly.
Image Source : GOIThe new building is built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,200 cr while one one was constructed at a cost of Rs 83 lakh.
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