PM Modi to Inaugurate ‘Seva Teerth’, Shift PMO from South Block to New Central Vista Complex

According to official information, Modi will announce the formal naming of the Prime Minister’s Office as ‘Seva Teerth’ at around 1:30 pm. Later in the evening, at approximately 6 pm, he will inaugurate Seva Teerth and Kartavya Bhawan-1 and 2, followed by a public address.

Friday will mark the final working day of the PMO at South Block, which has housed the office for decades. Before relocating, the Prime Minister will chair a special meeting of the Union Cabinet at 4 pm — the last Cabinet meeting to be held in the British-era Secretariat Building designed by architect Herbert Baker in the early 1900s.

With the transition, central government ministries will gradually move out of the North and South Blocks, which have functioned as the administrative nerve centre of the country since 1921. The ministries will now operate from Kartavya Bhawan-1 and 2, part of the newly developed Central Secretariat complex.

The Seva Teerth complex comprises three buildings. Seva Teerth-1 will house the Prime Minister’s Office, Seva Teerth-2 the Cabinet Secretariat, and Seva Teerth-3 the National Security Council Secretariat along with the office of the National Security Advisor.

The complex was earlier referred to as the “Executive Enclave” during construction. The name was changed last month to Seva Teerth, meaning “place of service.” The project forms a key component of the Central Vista redevelopment plan announced in September 2019. The foundation stone was laid in December 2020, and the overall project has an estimated outlay of ₹20,000 crore.

So far, the new Parliament building and the Vice President’s Enclave have been completed. Three of the eight proposed ministry buildings are near completion.

As part of the broader plan, the North and South Blocks will be converted into the ‘Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum’, expected to house 25,000 to 30,000 artefacts. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs, which has operated from North Block for nearly 90 years, is also in the process of relocating to the Common Central Secretariat building on Janpath.

The relocation marks a significant administrative shift, ending nearly a century of governance from the colonial-era buildings and ushering in a new phase under the Central Vista framework.