The sprawling Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) is likely to be shifted to Janpath hotel by July 2020 as part of the Central Vista Redevelopment project.

Top sources said the Central Works Board of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved a proposal to renovate and upgrade hotel Janpath, so IGNCA building could be shifted under the Central Vista Redevelopment project.

Janpath is currently shot down awaiting renovation. IGNCA will be eventually shifted to Jamnagar House plot by 2024.

According to sources, the retrofitting of Janpath hotel is necessary as the structure is over 50-year-old.

The renovation will start from March and it will complete in July.

In the first phase, four out of 10 blocks or buildings have been proposed to be constructed. Out of these three blocks will come up in the plot of IGNCA.

The IGNCA, established in the memory of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, may be shifted near Jamnagar House, where around 15-acre land currently used by hutments are likely to be removed.

Ahmedabad-based firm HCP Design Planning and Management is designing the master-plan for the new Central Vista.

The total cost of renovation of Janpath is estimated to be Rs 74 crore. The hotel spread in 4.4-acre-plot will be used as General Pool Official Accommodation (GPOA).

A committee of secretaries headed by cabinet secretary PK Sinha, set up last year to work out details such as land usage and how the hotel property should be used, has approved the proposal to develop the 4.4-acre-plot as GPOA.

According to the proposed plan, the IGNCA and other nine buildings, including Udyog Bhawan, Nirman Bhawan, Shashtri Bhawan, vice president residence, are likely to be demolished to pave the way for the construction of a common Central Secretariat to house various Ministries.

As a part of the ambitious plan, being executed through the Central Public Works Department of the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, a new Parliament building near the existing circular heritage structure has been proposed.

The triangular building will have a Lok Sabha chamber big enough to accommodate 900 MPs usually, in view of any future increase in the number of seats, and up to about 1,300 for a joint session of Parliament.

Two MPs would share one 1,300 mm bench, which would be enough to accommodate a third MP during a joint session.

The triangular building would have a spire, though the material it would be made of is yet to be decided.