Rashtrapati Bhavan now open for public viewing for six days a week from June 1

New Delhi, 16/5: Rashtrapati Bhavan will be open for public viewing for six days in a week from June 1, an official statement issued on Tuesday said.

 

 

The tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan will be available from Tuesday to Sunday (except on gazetted holidays) in seven-time slots, between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm hours, it said.

 

Rashtrapati Bhavan, home to the country’s president, was the creation of architects of exceptional imagination and masterfulness — Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. It was Sir Lutyens who conceptualised the H-shaped building, covering an area of 5 acres on a 330-acre estate.