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The
Suvarna Vidhana Soudha has been so named to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Karnataka's formation day. The building is a four floored structure with a total built-up area of 60,398 sq.m. and consists of an Assembly hall that seats 300, a Council hall for 100 members, a 450-seat Central Hall, 38
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Suvarna Soudha has been criticised as an extravagance as the building will only be used once a year to hold a session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The Karnataka Government however has suggested that the building will also host legislative committee and regional meetings
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Construction Technology Pvt. Ltd. were given the contract to construct the building. There were repeated extensions of the deadline on account of tardy progress in construction. The contract for interior design and services consultancy was awarded to Gajbar & Associates headed
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Belagavi and Kolhapur. They were entrusted with the interior design of all the halls and audiotorioums inside the building. They also provided design consultancy for outer landscape and MEP design. By August 2012, the cost of the building alone had reached
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ministerial chambers and 14 meeting halls. It also has conference halls, a banquet hall, secretariats for both the houses of legislature, meeting halls and office accommodations. The entire complex is located on 51 hectares of land that was acquired from farmers in the area. The
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that the project gained momentum. While it was originally to have come up at
Tilakwadi, it was subsequently relocated to its present location at the Halga-Bastwad area of Belagavi, 10 km from the city and just off the
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atop the main dome of the building, measuring 3.68 metres by 2.11 metres and weighing 6.50 tonnes was created by the V T N Creative Art Studio in
Bangalore. The facade of the building has the motto 'Work is Worship'
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for the original building was performed by the then Chief
Minister, Kumaraswamy in 2007 while his successor, Yeddyurappa performed it for the construction of the building at its new venue in 2009.
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for control of the district. While the proposal to build a legislature building in
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