The 47th Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde today inaugurated the new building of Patna High Court that is also known as Shatabdi Bhawan or Centenary Building.
In the inauguration ceremony, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and other officials were present with the Chief Justice of India.
Back on February 4, 2014, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in presence of Ex Chief Justice of Patna Rekha M Doshit laid the foundation stone of this building.
The construction of this building was supposed to be completed till the year 2016 but due to delay in getting the environment clearance certificate and contractor dropout followed by the pandemic leads the construction of this building to be completed after 5 years.
As per a report, the cost to complete Patna’s Shatabdi Bhawan is Rs. 203.94 crore.
Shatabdi Bhawan: Patna High Court New Building Specification
Below I have listed the complete specification of Patna’s Shatabdi aka Centenary Building.
- The Building has 43 new courtrooms.
- The Basement of the Building can park around 129 cars at a time.
- The New Building has 57 chambers, 2 libraries and lounges.
- It has 6 committee rooms.
- It also has a conference room for 90 persons.
- The new Shatabdi Bhawan is connected to the Patna High Court old building via a bridge.
- The new building has an underground water tank that stores 1 lakh litres of water. The building also has an overhead tank that stores 20,000 litres of water in case a fire breaks out.
- The Shatabdi Bhawan is equipped with automatic fire fire detection and alarm system.
- Shatabdi Bhawan is a modern building because it is equipped with some modern facilities like Sewage and Water Treatment Plant, Rainwater Harvesting and CCTV surveillance.
