Raj Nivas revamp: temporary office-residence of LG to be ready in four months
The HinduThe revamp of facilities at the building that would temporarily serve as the office-residence of the Lt. Governor, pending the structural strengthening and restoration of the 250-year-old Raj Nivas, is expected to be completed in four months. The Raj Nivas, notified as a Grade-1A heritage structure, had been declared structurally unsafe by the Public Works Department last year. The government had readied a plan to relocate the functioning of the Raj Nivas to a temporary office-residence at the newly-built building at the Old Distillery complex on the Vaithikuppam side of the Beach Road. The restoration of the Raj Nivas is expected to take at least a year from the time K. Lakshminarayanan, Public Works Minister; A. Nedunchezhiyan, Secretary to the Lt.
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