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Museum of all former Prime Ministers of India to be inaugurated soon

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  • Published
    31st Mar, 2022

A museum of all former Prime Ministers, Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya (the Museum of Prime Ministers), has been built at Teen Murti Estate, in Delhi. 

  • The Rs. 270 crore project will be inaugurated on April 14, 2022,which was the residence of ex-PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

Context 

A museum of all former Prime Ministers, Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya (the Museum of Prime Ministers), has been built at Teen Murti Estate, in Delhi. 

  • The Rs. 270 crore project will be inaugurated on April 14, 2022,which was the residence of ex-PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

About the Museum

  • The Museum will showcase the life, times and contribution of all 14 Prime Ministers of India so far, except for the collections and works on Jawaharlal Nehru, who has a separate Nehru Memorial Museum, which was also his residence.
  • The PMs Museum project was approved in 2018, and the deadline for its completion was October 2020 but faced delays due to pandemic-related lockdowns, as well as civil works and content-curation issues.

Prime Minister

  • India, also known as Bharat, is a Union of States.
  • It is a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic with a parliamentary system of government.
  • In the Parliamentary system of Government, the Prime Minister is the leader of the executive system of Government of India and also the head of the Council Of Ministers.
  • Prime Minister is the real custodian of all the executive authority.
  • Article 74(1) of the Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as its head to aid and advise the President, who shall exercise his/her functions in accordance to the advice.

 

Prime Ministers of India

  • Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
  • August 15, 1947 - May 27, 1964
  • Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • June 9, 1964 - January 11, 1966
  • Shri Gulzari Lal Nanda
  • January 11, 1966 - January 24, 1966
  • May 27, 1964 - June 9, 1964
  • Shri Morarji Desai
  • March 24, 1977 - July 28, 1979
  • Shri Charan Singh
  • July 28, 1979 - January 14, 1980
  • Mrs. Indira Gandhi
  • January 14, 1980 - October 31, 1984
  • January 24, 1966 - March 24, 1977
  • Shri Rajiv Gandhi
  • October 31, 1984 - December 2, 1989
  • Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh
  • December 2, 1989 - Nov. 10, 1990
  • Shri Chandra Shekhar
  • November 10, 1990 - June 21, 1991
  • Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao
  • June 21, 1991- May 16, 1996
  • Shri H. D. Deve Gowda
  • June 1, 1996 - April 21, 1997
  • Shri Inder Kumar Gujral
  • April 21, 1997 - March 19, 1998
  • Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • March 19, 1998 - May 22, 2004
  • May 16, 1996 - June 1, 1996

 

  • Dr. Manmohan Singh
  • May 22, 2004 - 26th May 2014
  • Shri Narendra Modi
  • 26th May 2014-present (4th PM of India who served two consecutive tenures)

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