The most important feature of the new city will be Government House and its precincts, which are to be erected of white marble on the designs of Mr. Lutyens, who is certain to be equal to this unique opportunity. The south-west front will face the Jama Masjid slong a wide avenue.
'A wing will be set apart for distinguished guests, and within the large enclosure of Government House there will be accommodation not only for the Viceregal staff, dyguard, and secretariat, but also residences for the Commander-in-
Chief, the members of the Executive Council, and heads of departments. The Council Chamber will be to the north-west of Government House. The need so acutely felt in Calcutta since the Governor-General's Legislative Council was enlarged, for reading and writing rooms, s good official reference brary, and rooms where heads of departments can carry on work Serr. 7, 1912 within call of the division bell wil be duly met.
Another building which may be provided in the vicinity (probably mainly by subscriptions) wil' be an Anglican Cathedral, for it has already been announced ths: the Church authorities propose tk: creation of an Archbishopric for Delhi. Behind Government Hour will be a private park, and s public park will lie to the south-east of the Governor-General's residence.
In the laying out of the toms generally due attention will be paid to sociological problems, and all local conditions will be considered as is guaranteed by the decision that the Public Works Departmest shall have an active share in the creation of the new capital.
Due respect will be paid to the claims of antiquity. No ancient monuments or ruins will be dietary ed for the sufficient reason that, the Moguls preferred to hare their success river Jumma, been built upon.
With Delhi so well served with railways the river is not an important means of communication as it was in past centuries The new city will lie between th Great Indian Peninsula aod the Rajputana Railways. Some diversion of one or both of these lines may be made to suit the jeonvenience of the capital.
The fact that the site has a natural drainage will substantially lessen the cost which would have been incurred if the low-lying Durbar ground had been selected. On the other hand, the work on the Durbar ground cannot be utilised to the extent originally expected. Though the first rough estimate of m capital outlay of four million sterling will ino doubt be exceeded, it will not be so wide of the mark as many critics have supposed.
But as Lord Hardinge has ssid, the new city must be worthy of the grest Indian Empire, and the re quirements of the situation must be met with a careful, but not parsimonious supervision of the expenditure required if a really satis factory result is to be achieved.
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