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On the second day of my trip to Delhi, I decided to explore the central part of the Delhi on foot. I wanted to get a Street view of the Delhi, especially New Delhi. First, the first thing I wanted to explore was the Sansad Marg as a lot of government offices were there in this mark, and this was the home of all the member of Parliament too. So, we started from Connaught Palace and headed towards Sansad Marg.
The Park Hotel (New Delhi)—
As soon as you walk towards the Sansad Marg on the left side you have the park hotel and on the right side, you have Jantar Mantar. I have already made a blog about Jantar Mantar. You can check that in my profile, but the park hotel was just looking amazing. I wish I had that amount of money that I could live there for the time I was in Delhi.
Whenever people invest think about India, they think of it as a third world country. They think about all the poor people, hunger, broken roads, garbage all around and things like that, but it’s not how India is nowadays I know I am talking about the most developed part of the India, the capital of India, but in spite of that as I know of India, it’s developing slowly. Even in some developed countries the countryside or the Royal areas are not that developed. That’s the case with India too but the metropolitan city’s of India are no less. There are some major issues with Indian cities like pollution and traffic just because of the population of India. But when we talk about infrastructure India has it all.
While walking on Sansad Marg I didn’t feel like I am in a third word country at all. I felt like this is the cleanest place in the world to my surprise. There was not that air pollution that day too to my surprise this was because of the rainfall that happened day before yesterday. The rain cleaned everything up and now it was super clear. I got to know from a friend that this is the best whether that Delhi can experience and it only occurs for about three or four times a year was very lucky that I was there at that time.
Walking on Sansad Marg—
While walking on the street, I felt like how much India has developed over years I was thinking about my childhood days when I visited Delhi for the first time and I remember the Delhi that I saw that time. It was really a third world kind of vibe at that time. But now everything is changed, there is good public transportation. Whether it be Metro or bus services. I was really happy to see a bus. Every five minute from the street was crossing from and what can I say about Delhi Metro. It’s simply the best!!!
This part of Delhi has a good amount of greenery, not just good amount of greenery it has more greenery than the amount of building there. You can see that in the pictures below yourself, there are countless offices of banks, Private banks, government banks, corporate companies on the way, and you can see that in the big buildings that are constructed on the both side of the road.
As already mentioned, I was really surprised to see a lot of buses every five minutes on the road. Another thing that I loved about Delhi nowadays is is that nowadays you only need one card to travel across Delhi that’s one card. You can use that in Delhi Metro in any bus of Delhi transport and that’s really helpful when you’re travelling in Delhi. It’s quite cheap very cheap. I must say, and it’s very effective.
Another reason that I think this area is very good is that people don’t live here very much. The people living here are either ministers are very high class government officials. The President’s house and vice president house is also in this street only.
We also came across a police station that was built in the street. The name of the police station was also Parliament Street that translates to Sansad Marg in Hindi, that’s why his street is Sansad Marg.
RBI —
After walking for around 10 minutes in Sansad Marg, we reached near the RBI reserve Bank of India. This is a place where the so called stored. That’s back against the Indian rupees. This is the headquarter of RBI and I was amazed to see it with my eyes.
In these places, we cannot just get inside them due to obvious reasons, but seeing them from the outside also was really special for me as I’ve been seeing them from my childhood days and I dreamt of being there forever. There were two very big scriptures made outside RBI. Those were inspired from Egyptian architecture as you can see. I don’t really know the meaning of why they are built just outside the RBI, if anyone reading this knows about it, please let me know in the comment box below.
Niti Aayog—
Just on the opposite side of the street, right next to the RBI, there was this building of Niti Aayog. This is the government office which is focused on promoting the economic growth of the country. Apart from that there were many premier institutes, mostly government institutes and offices that were present there like there was Akashvani Kendra there, Sansad TV office there and Delhi police headquarter and many others to count. In short I was in the most premier government area of the country, and I was to know that.
The Parliament of India—
Just five minutes from RBI, we reached our destination. The place where the Sansad Marg ends. The Sunset Street ends the place where all the laws of the country are made the Indian Parliament. I try to capture the photograph of Parliament from outside as we couldn’t get for obvious reasons, but when I saw it with my eyes, I was amazed. I was just able to see the old Parliament building that was constructed about 100 years back, and it was still shining. The new Parliament building is also constructed right next to it and I was just able to see that through a fence. I was not able to capture a good photograph of it, but let me tell you. It was just amazing.
We try to roam around it from the outside street and try to capture some photographs of it while roaming around. There was also many buildings that are converted to government offices that were built by Britishers when they were colonising India. those buildings are over hundred years, old, some of them are even 200 years old.
In the photograph below, you can see the back entry of the Indian Parliament. All the entries are heavily guided and this whole area is under great security for obvious reasons.
There are also a couple of Gurudwara nearby just right next to the Indian Parliament. There is one Gurudwara called The Rakab Ganj Gurudwara and just about 500 m away. There is one very famous Gurudwara that’s Bangla Sahib. I visited both of them and I’ll be writing about them in some other blogs for sure.
Also, this very old kind of building right next to the Parliament. It was called North Black, and I was really happy to see it. After roaming around here for a while it was time to take some rest, and we did just when we visited the Gurudwara Rakab Ganj.
That’s all for today, guys. I’ll be back with another blog tomorrow.
Thanks for passing by.
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