As PM Modi shifts his office tomorrow, PMO gets a new address: Seva Teerth

NEW DELHI: South Block, location to each large decisions successful govt for implicit 5 decades, volition spot PMO determination retired of the British-era gathering connected Friday day and displacement to the recently constructed Seva Teerth. PM Narendra Modi volition seat the past Cabinet gathering successful South Block connected that time earlier the inauguration of the caller administrative building, which is little than a kilometre from the iconic operation connected Raisina Hill. TOI has learnt that aft the Cabinet meeting, Union ministers and bureaucrats volition spell from South Block to Sewa Teerth, which houses the PMO, furniture secretariat, bureau of the NSA and India House, the caller venue to big high-level delegations. Officials said the archetypal Cabinet gathering nether PM Jawaharlal Nehru was held successful South Block. South Block and North Block connected Raisina Hill were built successful 1931. The past of PMO is traced to a tiny PM's secretariat (PMS) successful 1947. The archetypal large structural alteration happened successful 1964, aft Lal Bahadur Shastri became PM, erstwhile PMS got statutory presumption via Allocation of Business Rules. The authorization of the bureau accrued during Indira Gandhi's tenure and, successful 1977, it was renamed PMO during Morarji Desai's tenure. The ministries of defence and outer affairs volition determination from South Block to aggregate offices implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.