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Home Ministry and North Block
July 31 , 2025
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- The Home Ministry begins moving out of the British-era North Block.
- The Ministry has been known by this address for nearly 90 years.
- The iconic North Block building at Raisina Hills in Lutyens Delhi will no longer be home to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
- The Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan was among the first to move to the new office complex.
- The MHA has been allotted 347 rooms in the new complex.
- It is shifting to the Common Central Secretariat (CCS) building on Janpath, Delhi.
- Once all offices move out of the North and South Blocks, these will be turned into a museum.
- Named ‘Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum’, it will display an estimated 25,000-30,000 artefacts.
- It is likely to be one of the largest museums in the world.
- The CCS is part of the Central Vista redevelopment plan.
- The objective of the building CCS is to improve coordination, collaboration and synergy among various organs of the Central Government.
- That will boost the productivity and obviate the need for unnecessary travel of documents and officials from the offices spread over different parts of the city.
- The British-era buildings – North Block and South Block – house the very key administrative buildings such as the office of the Prime Minister, and Ministries of Defence, Home, External Affairs and Finance.
- These red-sandstone buildings were built by British architect Herbert Baker and inaugurated in 1921.
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