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Seva Teerth — New Prime Minister’s Office Complex
February 17 , 2026
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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi shifted his official workspace to Seva Teerth, a newly built complex near Raisina Hill in New Delhi.
- This ended nearly eight decades of the Prime Minister’s Office functioning from South Block.
- North Block and South Block were originally built for the British government and were taken over by independent India in 1947.
- They were designed by architect Herbert Baker, a contemporary of Edwin Lutyens.
- South Block earlier housed the Prime Minister’s Office and the Union Ministries of External Affairs and Defence, while North Block housed the Ministries of Home Affairs and Finance.
- These buildings will now be converted into museums.
- The new Seva Teerth complex brings together the Prime Minister’s Office, the Cabinet Secretariat, and the National Security Council Secretariat, which were previously located in different places, as part of the Central Vista Project.
- The architectural design includes an entrance inspired by Chalukyan temple stone screen-work from the 11th–13th centuries, and a carved stone plinth band inspired by the Chennakeshava Temple.
- The Union Cabinet passed a resolution naming the new Prime Minister’s Office complex “Seva Teerth”.
- The Prime Minister unveiled the plaque bearing the name in Devanagari script along with the motto “Nagrik Devo Bhava” (Citizen is akin to God).
- The shift took place on the day marking 95 years since the inauguration of New Delhi as India’s modern capital in 1931.
- Earlier, the capital of British India had been shifted from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912.
- The Prime Minister’s residence continues to be located on Lok Kalyan Marg, formerly known as Race Course Road.
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