Today, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him to the inauguration of the new Parliament building. 

The Lok Sabha Secretariat announced on Thursday that the new building's construction was finished. 

The new Parliament symbolises the spirit of a self-reliant India, it said.

The four-storey building has been constructed at an estimated cost of ₹970 crore. The building has been designed by Ahmedabad-based HCP Design, Planning and Management, and constructed by Tata Projects Limited.

The new Parliament will have a seating capacity of 888 for the Lok Sabha, as against 543 in the old Parliament House, and 300 in the Rajya Sabha as compared with 250 earlier.

Since there is no Central Hall in the new Parliament, joint sittings of members of both Houses will be held in the Lok Sabha, which will be able to accommodate 1,280 Members of Parliament at such times.

The present building of the Parliament was completed in 1927, which makes it almost 100 years old. Lack of space and the need to modernise is stated to be the chief cause for building a new Parliament.

Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha passed resolutions urging the government to construct a new Parliament building. The foundation stone of the new building was laid by Mr Modi in December 2020.

the monsoon session of Parliament will be held in the new building.