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The Rashtrapati Bhavan (About this sound pronunciation (help·info), "rásh-tra-pa-ti bha-vun"; "Presidential Palace", formerly Viceroy's House) is that the official residence of the President of India at the western end of Rajpath in New Delhi , India. Rashtrapati Bhavan may ask only the 340-room main building that has the president's official residence, including reception halls, guest rooms and offices, also called the mansion; it's going to also ask the whole 130-hectare (320-acre) Presidential Estate that additionally includes the presidential gardens (Mughal Gardens), large open spaces, residences of bodyguards and staff, stables, other offices and utilities within its perimeter walls. In terms of area, it's the most important residence of any head of state within the world

LOCATION

Rashtrapati bhavan located in Delhi state and capital of India  Delhi is a capital of Indian union after independence . Delhi is cosmopolitan city in India

 LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE

• 28.39'21   East latitude
• 77.14'27   North longitude

MSL ( MEAN SEA LEVEL)

The elevation or mean sea level of Delhi is 216 meters or 719 ft above sea level

CLIMATE

Delhi is a overlap between moon soon influenced humid subtropical and semi arid with high variation between summer and winter temperature and precipitation Delhi 's version of a humid subtropical 

• In summer temperature    45 . c ( or ) 114 f
• Average temperature        29 . c  (or)  85 f 
• Rainfall                           797. 3 mm

LOCAL LANGUAGE

• Hindi
• English
• Punjabi
• Urdu

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Rashtrapati bhavan is famous for

 Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official residence of the President of India, is an imposing edifice located at the west end of the Rajpath in New Delhi with the India gate at the opposite end. Designed by Edwin Landseer Lutyens, this palatial building was the erstwhile residence of the British Viceroy

Timings & Entry Fee

•  Rashtrapati bhavan opening for visiting  only friday saturday and sunday remain days are not open for visiting purpose

• 9.00 am to 4.00 pm

Entry fee

• 50 for person 
• 1200 30 members group

History of rashtrapati bhavan

• The Governor-General of Fort William resided in Belvedere House, Calcutta, until the first nineteenth century, when Government House, Calcutta (now Raj Bhavan, Kolkata) was constructed. Lord Wellesley, who is reputed to possess said that ‘India should be governed from a palace, not from a rustic house’, ordered the development of a grand mansion between 1799 and 1803 and in 1854, the elected official of Bengal took up residence there. The decision to build a residence in New Delhi for the British Viceroy was taken after it was decided during the Delhi Durbar in December 1911 that the capital of India would be relocated from Calcutta to Delhi. When the plan for a replacement city, New Delhi, adjacent to finish south of Delhi , was developed after the Delhi Durbar, the new palace for the Viceroy of India was given a huge size and prominent position. About 4,000 acres of land was acquired to start the development of Viceroy's House, because it was originally called, and adjacent Secretariat Building between 1911 and 1916 by relocating Raisina and Malcha villages that existed there and their 300 families under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
• The sloping approach from the east, which hides the lower a part of the building, as Lutyens feared.
• The British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens, a serious member of the city-planning process, was given the first architectural responsibility. The completed Governor-General's palace turned out very similar to the original sketches which Lutyens sent Herbert Baker, from Simla, on 14 June 1912. Lutyens' design is grandly classical overall, with colors and details inspired by Indian architecture. Lutyens and Baker, who had been assigned to figure on Viceroy's House and therefore the Secretariats, began on friendly terms. Baker had been assigned to work on the two secretariat buildings which were in front of Viceroy's House. The original plan was to possess Viceroy's House on the highest of Raisina Hill, with the secretariats lower down. It was later decided to create it 400 yards back and put both buildings on top of the plateau. While Lutyens wanted Viceroy's House to be higher, he was forced to maneuver it back from the intended position, which resulted during a dispute with Baker. After completion, Lutyens argued with Baker, because the view of the front of the building was obscured by the high angle of the road.
• Lutyens campaigned for its fixing, but wasn't ready to catch on to be changed. Lutyens wanted to form an extended inclined grade all the thanks to Viceroy's House with retaining walls on either side. While this would give a view of the house from further back, it would also cut through the square between the secretariat buildings. The committee with Lutyens and Baker established in January 1914 said the grade was to be no steeper than 1 in 25, though it eventually was changed to 1 in 22, a steeper gradient which made it harder to ascertain the Viceroy's palace. While Lutyens knew about the gradient, and the possibility that the Viceroy's palace would be obscured by the road, it is thought that Lutyens did not fully realise how little the front of the house would be visible. In 1916 the Imperial Delhi committee dismissed Lutyens's proposal to change the gradient. Lutyens thought Baker was more concerned with making money and pleasing the govt , instead of making an honest architectural design.
• Indian President's Bodyguard marching at Rashtrapati Bhavan
• Lutyens travelled between India and England almost per annum for twenty years and worked on the development of Viceroy's House in both countries. Lutyens reduced the building from 13,000,000 cubic feet (370,000 m3) to eight ,500,000 cubic feet (240,000 m3) due to the budget restrictions of Lord Hardinge. While Hardinge demanded that costs be reduced, he nevertheless wanted the house to retain a particular amount of ceremonial grandeur.
• The gardens were initially designed and laid call at Mughal style by William Robert Mustoe who was influenced by Lady Hardinge who successively had sought inspiration within the book by Constance Villiers-Stuart in her Gardens of the good Mughals (1913). The designs underwent changes and alterations under subsequent viceroys and after Indian Independence.
• When Chakravarti Rajagopalachari assumed the office because the first Indian-born governor of India and have become the occupant of this building he preferred to remain during a few rooms which is now the family wing of the President and converted the then Viceroy's apartments into the Guest Wing where visiting heads of state stay while in India.
• On 26 January 1950, when Rajendra Prasad became the primary President of India and occupied this building, it had been renamed as Rashtrapati Bhavan – the President's House.

Architecture

• Consisting of 4 floors and 340 rooms, with a floor area of 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2), it had been built using 1 billion bricks and three ,000,000 cubic foot (85,000 m3) of stone with little steel.
• The design of the building fell into the period of time of the Edwardian Baroque, a time at which emphasis was placed on the utilization of heavy classical motifs so as to emphasize power and imperial authority. the planning process of the mansion was long, complicated and politically charged. Lutyens' early designs were all starkly classical and completely European a la mode . His disrespect for the local building tradition he dismissed as primitive is clear in his numerous sketches with appended scrawls like 'Moghul tosh' and his short remark that 'they want me to try to to Hindu – Hindon't I say!' within the post-Mutiny era, however, it had been decided that sensitivity must be shown to the local surroundings so as to raised integrate the building within its political context, and after much political debate Lutyens conceded to incorporating local Indo-Saracenic motifs, albeit during a rather superficial decorational form on the skin of the building.
• Detail of 1 of the chhatri pavilions on the roof
• Various Indian elements were added to the building. These included several circular stone basins on top of the building, as water features are a crucial a part of Indian architecture. There was also a standard Indian chujja or chhajja, which occupied the place of a frieze in classical architecture; it had been a pointy , thin, protruding element which extended 8 feet (2.4 m) from the building, and created deep shadows. It blocks harsh sunlight from the windows and also shields the windows from heavy rain during the monsoon season. On the roofline were several chuttris, which helped to interrupt up the flatness of the roofline not covered by the dome. Lutyens appropriated some Indian design elements, but used them sparingly and effectively throughout the building.
• Elephant statues on the outer wall
• Cannon outside the doorway 
• Jaipur Column there have been also statues of elephants and fountain sculptures of cobras, also because the bas-reliefs round the base of the Jaipur Column, made by British sculptor, Charles Sargeant Jagger. from west with north block at Rashtrapati Bhawan
• The column features a "distinctly peculiar crown on top, a glass star springing out of bronze lotus blossom".
• There were pierced screens in red sandstone, called jalis or jaalisinspired by Rajasthani designs. The front of the palace, on the side , has twelve unevenly spaced massive columns with the Delhi Order capitals, a "nonce order" Lutyens invented for this building, with Ashokan details. The capitals have a fusion of acanthus leaves with the four pendant Indian bells. The bells are similar a la mode to Indian Hindu and Buddhist temples, the thought being inspired from a Jain temple at Moodabidri in Karnataka.[citation needed] One bell is on each corner at the highest of the column. As there's an ancient Indian belief that bells signalled the top of a dynasty, it had been said that because the bells were silent British rule out India wouldn't end.The front of the building doesn't have windows, except within the wings at the edges .
• Whereas previous British samples of so-called Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture had mostly grafted elements from Mughal architecture onto essentially Western carcasses, Lutyens drew also from the much earlier Buddhist Mauryan art. this will be seen within the Dehli Order, and within the main dome, where the drum below has decoration recalling the railings around early Buddhist stupas like Sanchi. there's also the presence of Mughal and European colonial architectural elements. Overall the structure is distinctly different from other contemporary British Colonial symbols, although other New Delhi buildings, like the Secretariat Building, New Delhi, mainly by Herbert Baker, have similarities.
• Lutyens added several small personal elements to the house, like a neighborhood within the garden walls and two ventilator windows on the stateroom to seem just like the glasses which he wore. The Viceregal Lodge was completed largely by 1929, and (along with the remainder of latest Delhi) inaugurated officially in 1931. The building took seventeen years to finish and eighteen years later India became independent. After Indian independence in 1947, the now ceremonial Governor-General continued to measure there, being succeeded by the President in 1950 when India became a republic and therefore the house was renamed "Rashtrapati Bhavan".
• It has 355 decorated rooms and a floor area of 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2). The structure includes 700 million bricks and three .5 million cubic feet (85,000 m³) of stone, with only minimal usage of steel. Lutyens established ateliers in Delhi and Lahore to use local craftsmen. The chief engineer of the project was Sir Teja Singh Malik, and 4 main contractors included Sir Sobha Singh

Layout plan of rashtrapati bhavan

• Main gate of Rashtrapati Bhawan with Jaipur Column in background.
• The layout plan of the building is meant around a huge square with multiple courtyards and open inner areas within. 
• The plan involved two wings; one for the Viceroy and residents and another for guests. 
• The residence wing may be a separate four-storey house in itself, with its own court areas within. This wing was so large that the last Indian governor-general, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, opted to measure within the smaller guest wing, a practice followed by subsequent presidents. the first residence wing is now used primarily for state receptions and as a guest wing for visiting heads of state.

Halls and rooms

• Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, Member of Parliament, presenting U.S. President Barack Obama with a shawl during the State Dinner receiving line at Rashtrapati Bhawan (2015)
• Rashtrapati Bhavan has many halls which are used for state functions and other purposes. Two of them, Durbar Hall and Ashoka Hall, are the foremost prominent.
• Durbar Hall is situated directly under the double-dome of the most building. referred to as the "Throne Room" before independence, it had two separate thrones for the Viceroy and Vicereine. 
• Presently, one high chair for the President is kept hereunder a Belgian glass chandelier hanging from a height of 33 m. 
• The flooring of the hall is formed of chocolate-coloured Italian marble. 
• The columns in Durbar Hall are made in Delhi Order which mixes vertical lines with the motif of a bell. The vertical lines from the column were also utilized in the frieze round the room, which couldn't are through with one among the normal Greek orders of columns. 
• The columns are made up of yellow Jaisalmer marble, with a thick line running along the centre.
• Durbar Hall features a capacity of 500 people and it's here during this building that Jawaharlal Nehru took the oath of office of Prime Minister of Independent India from Lord Mountbatten at 8.30 am on 15 August 1947.
• Ashoka Hall may be a rectangular room of 32×20 m and therefore the most beautiful of all the halls. it had been originally built as a state ballroom with wooden floors . 
• The Persian painting on its ceiling depicts a royal campaign led by King Fateh Ali Shah of Persia. The walls have fresco paintings.
• The two state drawing rooms, the state supper room and therefore the state library are each on the four corners of Durbar Hall. 
• There also are other rooms like many loggias (galleries with outdoors on one side) which face out into the courtyards, an outsized dining hall with a particularly long table to seat 104 persons, sitting rooms, billiards rooms and staircases.

Dome of rashtrapati bhavan

• The dome, within the middle, reflects both Indian and British styles. within the centre may be a tall copper-faced dome, surmounting a really tall drum in several sections, which stands out from the remainder of the building. The dome is strictly within the middle of the diagonals between the four corners of the building. The dome is quite twice the peak of the building itself.
• The height of the dome was increased by Lord Hardinge within the plan of the building in 1913. The dome combines classical and Indian styles. Lutyens said the planning evolved from that of the Pantheon in Rome, although externally it's little resemblance thereto , either within the curve of the dome or the high drum; both have an oculus within the centre. the outside of the dome was modelled partly after the first Buddhist stupas, like that at Sanchi, which it resembles much more within the exterior profile. there's a Buddhist-style "railing" design round the section of the drum below the dome. The dome is supported by evenly spaced columns which form a porch with an open area between. within the New Delhi summer heat haze this provides an impact of the dome being afloat. Workers began to make the ferroconcrete shell of the outer dome at the start of 1929. The last stone of the dome was laid on 6 April 1929

Mughal Gardens fountain

• The Mughal Gardens are situated at the rear of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, incorporate both Mughal and English landscaping styles and have an excellent sort of flowers. The Rashtrapati Bhavan gardens are hospitable the general public in February per annum .
• Main garden: Two channels intersecting at right angles running within the cardinal directions divide this garden into a grid of squares: a charbagh. There are six lotus shaped fountains at the crossings of those channels, rising up to a height of 12 feet (3.7 m). The channels function as reflecting pools. There are bird tables for feeding grain to wild birds.
• Terrace garden: There are two longitudinal strips of garden, at a better level on all sides of the most Garden, forming the Northern and Southern boundaries. The plants grown are an equivalent as within the Main Garden. At the centre of both of the strips may be a fountain, which falls inwards, forming a well. On the Western tips are located two gazebos and on the Eastern tips two ornately designed sentry posts.
• Long Garden or the 'Purdah Garden': this is often located to the West of the most Garden, and runs along on all sides of the central pavement which matches to the circular garden. Enclosed in walls about 12 feet high, this is often predominantly a garden . it's 16 square rose beds encased in low hedges. there's a red sandstone pergola within the centre over the central pavement which is roofed with Rose creepers, Petrea, Bougainvillea and vines. The walls are covered with creepers like jasmine, Rhynchospermum, Tecoma Grandiflora, Bignonia Venusta, Adenocalymma, Echitice, Parana Paniculata. Along the walls are planted the China Orange trees.

Mughal Gardens Tulips

• Around the circular garden there are rooms for the office of the horticulturist, a green house, stores, nursery etc. Here is housed the gathering of bonsais, one among the simplest within the country.
• All the presidents who have stayed at the Rashtrapati Bhavan have taken a keen interest within the maintenance and maintenance of the Mughal Gardens. All have contributed in their own way. The underlying themes, however, have remained unaltered.

Udyanotsav

• The Mughal Gardens opens for general public viewing in February–March per annum during Udyanotsav.

Museum

• In July 2014, a museum inside Rashtrapati Bhavan was inaugurated by then President of India Pranab Mukherjee. The museum helps visitors to urge an indoor view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, its art, architecture and obtain educated about lives of past presidents.

Restoration Rashtrapati Bhavan

The first restoration project at the Rashtrapati Bhavan was started in 1985 and led to 1989, during which the Ashoka Hall was stripped of its later additions and restored to its original state by the architectural restorer Sunita Kohli. The second restoration project, begun in 2010, involved Charles Correa and Sunita Kohli.[13][18

Accommodation In delhi

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ENTERTAINMENT IN DELHI

Delhi has invariably been a vivacious town with a cosmopolitan culture that is mirrored in each side of life. city has lots of diversion spots to settle on from. diversion Places like cinema halls, pubs, hotels and recreational centers area unit open on all weekends. it's world category multiplexes just like the PVR, Big Cinema, Fun Cinema, DT Cinema etc. Nightlife in city consists of clubs, bars, restaurants, etc., wherever you get a world category atmosphere with quality service.

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visiting places in delhi

1. Akshardham Temple
2. Azad Hind Gram
3. Lotus Temple
4. Birla Mandir
5. Dilli Haat
6. Dilli Haat INA
7. Dilli Haat Pitampura
8. Dilli Haat Janakpuri
9. Garden of Five Senses
10. Humayun's Tomb
11. India Gate
12. Iskcon Temple
13. Jama Masjid
14. Jantar Mantar
15. Kalam memorial
16. Lodi Tomb
17. Parliament House
18. Purana Qila
19. Qutub Minar
20. Rashtrapati Bhavan
21. Safdarjung Tomb
22. Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
23. Guru Tegh Bahadur Memorial
24. National Police Memorial
25. Red fort

14 MAJOR CITIES IN INDIA DISTANCE FROM   DELHI

• Chennai-------2183 km
• Calcutta-------1534 km
• Bhopal---------770 km 
• Hyderabad----- 1585 km
• Mumbai-------1415 km
• Kochi--------2707 km
• Bangalore----2177 km
• Sarnath-------847
• Kushinagar---877

15. NEAREST AIR PORTS

• Delhi international air port  --- 16 KM 
• Dehradun air port       ----------------------197 km
• Chandigarh airport -------------------------229 km
• Jaipur air port--------------------------------249 km

How to reach

How to reach urban center is that the 1st and foremost issue that involves mind whereas designing a visit to the present historic town. Serving because the capital town of the state, urban center has best transport facilities and reaching here isn't any fuss. the town is connected to major components of the country by air, rail and road. Indira Nehru Gandhi International landing field (IGI) is that the main flying field serving national and international travellers an outsized. people who want to travel train will book their tickets until national capital train depot (NDLS). Besides, there square measure 3 a lot of railway stations serving the town, particularly city train depot (DLI), Hazrat Nizamuddin train depot (NZM) and Anand Vihar Railway Terminal (ANVT). urban center is additionally well connected to numerous close cities and cities via smart network of buses.

By air:

Indira Gandhi International landing field (IGI) in urban center serves each domestic and international flights, creating it one amongst the busiest airports within the country. There square measure frequent flights to urban center from underground cities like Bombay, Hyderabad, Chennai, city and Calcutta. 

The landing field has 2 main terminals—Terminal 1D and Terminal three, wherever Terminal 1D serves domestic flights like IndiGo and Go Air, to call a couple of whereas Terminal three caters to international carriers. placed in Palam, the landing field covers an enormous space of regarding five,106 acres and is regarding twenty kilometers faraway from the national capital middle. whereas there square measure regular urban center Transport Corporation buses (DTC) plying from outside the landing field, a brand new underground line conjointly links the town centre with the landing field and trains square measure on the market in each ten minutes. Government registered pre-paid taxis can even be employed from the taxi counters at the landing field to achieve the town centre.

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By road:

Delhi has smart property by road to major tourer cities like metropolis, Jaipur, Shimla, Manali and Dehradun, among others. Major bus terminals serving the town embrace interstate Bus Terminals (ISBT) at Anand Vihar, Kashmiri Gate and Sarai Kale Khan. Besides, regular aair-conditioned buses ply from Himachal Bhawan in Mandi House to distinguished hill stations like Shimla and Manali. Similarly, buses for Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur square measure on the market from Bikaner House on Pandara Road. urban center conjointly encompasses a network of highways that connects the town with alternative a part of the country. One will fancy a cushty drive to Jaipur and metropolis by Granite State eight and Granite State a pair of, severally.

Bytrain:

The capital town {delhi|Delhi|Old urban center|city|metropolis|urban center} is primarily served by four railway stations—New Delhi train depot (NDLS), city train depot (DLI), Hazrat Nizamuddin train depot (NZM) and Anand Vihar Railway Terminal (ANVT). Among these, NDLS in Paharganj is that the largest and busiest with sixteen platforms and serves over five hundred,000 passengers on a commonplace. Travellers will rent taxis from the pre-paid taxi booth placed outside the station to achieve anyplace within the town. The urban center underground conjointly connects of these railway stations to alternative components of the town.