New Delhi
A capital built to a drawing: forty-three square kilometres laid out on Raisina Hill between 1911 and 1931, and still the address of every ministry in India.
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Republic Day Parade 2027
The parade down Kartavya Path on 26 January 2027, from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate.
What it is
India marks the day the constitution came into force in 1950 with a parade down Kartavya Path, from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate: the services in ceremonial dress, the mechanised columns, the state tableaux, and a flypast at the end. It is the single largest closure of central New Delhi in the year.
Practical
- Date: Tuesday 26 January 2027. The parade starts in the morning and the route is sealed well before it does.
- Seats on the avenue are ticketed, sold and issued online through the Ministry of Defence in the weeks beforehand, with a limited number of counters in the city. Carry the photo ID the ticket was issued against.
- Rehearsals run through January, and the full dress rehearsal a few days ahead closes the same roads as the parade itself. If you live or work between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate, check the rehearsal dates, not just the 26th.
- Bags, cameras with long lenses and electronics are restricted at the cordon; the published list changes year to year.
- Beating Retreat closes the sequence three days later at Vijay Chowk.
Getting there
Central Secretariat and Udyog Bhawan on the Metro are the usual approaches; several stations near the route close or become exit-only on the day, and the Metro publishes that list the week before.
About New Delhi
New Delhi is a municipality of 42.7 square kilometres inside the National Capital Territory, and the seat of the Government of India — Parliament, the ministries, the Supreme Court's neighbourhood and most of the diplomatic missions are within it. It is not run the way the rest of Delhi is. There is no elected mayor: the New Delhi Municipal Council is chaired by an IAS officer appointed by the central government, currently Keshav Chandra, in post since 30 October 2024, sitting with members nominated by the centre and by the Delhi government alongside the area's MLAs. One thing worth keeping straight: the New Delhi *district* of the NCT is bigger than the municipality of the same name, and includes Delhi Cantonment and parts of the MCD area, so a "New Delhi" address is not always inside the council's jurisdiction.
The 2011 census counted 249,998 residents, which makes this by far the smallest population on any Delhi page and says something true about the place: it is a working quarter of ministries, bungalows and embassies whose daytime population is several times its residential one. The census due in 2021 was postponed, so 2011 remains the newest official count.
The plan is the point. After the Delhi Durbar of December 1911 announced the move of the capital from Calcutta, Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker laid out a city of axes and roundabouts on Raisina Hill, and it was inaugurated in February 1931. Rashtrapati Bhavan sits at the head of the axis with the two Secretariat blocks flanking it, the ceremonial avenue runs down to India Gate, and Connaught Place closes the commercial end. The avenue was Kingsway, then Rajpath, and has been Kartavya Path since 8 September 2022; the Central Vista redevelopment along it added a new Parliament building, inaugurated on 28 May 2023 and first sat in that September, beside Herbert Baker's circular one of 1927.
Two practical things follow from being the protocol capital. Roads here close at little notice for VIP movement, and through January they close for Republic Day rehearsals — the full dress rehearsal shuts the whole avenue. And the air is the same as the rest of Delhi's: from October to February the Graded Response Action Plan brings staged restrictions on construction, generators and older vehicles, announced at short notice.
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