New Delhi:
The sprawling 3, Motilal Nehru Highway bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi served for over 10 years because the retirement abode of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, who died Thursday.
A spacious Sort-VIII bungalow amid the three-acre plot, Mr Singh had moved to this handle within the nationwide capital after attending Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony in Might 2014.
Prime Minister Modi succeeded him as India’s prime minister and checked into 7 Race Course Highway (now 7 Lok Kalyan Marg), the official residence of the prime minister, the place Mr Singh stayed for 10 years.
Earlier, the four-bedroom bungalow was the official residence of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit who had vacated it after her get together’s loss within the Delhi meeting elections. She died in 2019 on the age of 81.
After Ms Dikshit vacated the bungalow, the CPWD utterly renovated and restored it by re-doing the flooring and pillars.
Mr Singh, being a former prime minister, had SPG safety alongside along with his household.
The bungalow was house to about 40 full-grown bushes, together with peepul, arjun, goolar, marorfalli, jamun, neem, mango and seemal, which shelter about 60 species of birds and mammals, when Mr Singh, accompanied by his spouse Gursharan Kaur had moved into this prime handle in Lutyens’ Delhi.
The sprawling lawns of the property additionally supplied shelter to a sizeable variety of bats.
“Though no depend has been taken, the bats may quantity greater than 200,” a senior CPWD official who was concerned in getting the home prepared for Mr Singh and his household, had then mentioned.
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