AHMEDABAD: Gujarat chief minister
Narendra Modi would shift to his
newly-built office in Gandhinagar
unofficially dubbed as the 'North
Block' after 'kamurtas' or the
inauspicious period ends in mid-
January. Incidentally, the Prime
Minister's office is located inside New
Delhi's South Block.
The new Rs 150-crore chief minister's
office complex, built in less than a
year, has a south block too modeled
on New Delhi's secretariat, where his
ministers will have their offices. The
complex will be officially called
'Panchamrut', meaning that elixir for
six crore Gujaratis will flow from
here.
The four-floor building — spread
across 35,000 sq ft — has been built
by the roads & buildings (R&B)
department and designed by a
leading Ahmedabad architect, who
has also designed the Gujarat high
court and Amul dairy building apart
from some corporate offices.
Given the security concerns, bullet
proof glasses have been used for its
windows and doors. The centrally
air-conditioned building has a special
room for cabinet meetings and will
be constantly under CCTV
surveillance. "The new CM office is
directly connected with the first floor
of the state assembly from where the
CM, ministers and MLAs can enter
the assembly hall," said a senior R&B
official.
Modi took keen interest in every
detail of the design. Currently, Modi's
office is located on the fifth floor of
block No.1 in Sachivalaya. Over the
past few years, the scope of its
activity has expanded considerably,
under his centralised style of
administration, with a number of
staffers occupying space on the
second, third and fourth floors.
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