Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Friday (February 13, 2026) inaugurate the new Prime Minister’s Office ‘Seva Teerth’, and the Central Secretariat buildings, Kartavya Bhavan 1 and 2. The PM will also preside over the last meeting of the Union Cabinet at the South Block.
An era will end when the iconic North and South Blocks are vacated.
The North and South Blocks initially housed the British government, and were taken over by the government of independent India in 1947. They were designed by Herbert Baker, a contemporary of Edwin Lutyens, the architect of ‘Lutyen’s Delhi’.
The South Block houses the Prime Minister’s Office, as well as the offices of the Union Ministries of External Affairs and Defence. The North Block houses the Ministries of Home Affairs, and Finance.
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