Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to interact with the media on the first day of the Winter session of Parliament, Lok Sabha Secretariat informed on Tuesday. The Winter sessions will commence on 7 December.
Currently, preparations are in full swing to hold the winter session in the existing building and with the November deadline for completing the new building over, efforts are being made to finish the project work at the earliest, official sources said on Thursday.
On August 4, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore had told Lok Sabha that the physical progress of the new Parliament building is 70%. November is the deadline to complete the project, he had said.
The sources said besides the COVID-19 pandemic, there were several other factors, including the Russia-Ukraine war affecting overseas deliveries, which impacted the construction work of the new parliament building.
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