The Secretariat Building in New Delhi was designed by Herbert Baker, while Edwin Lutyens handled the wider plan of New Delhi. The article names no original client. The infobox gives construction from 1912 to 1927, but the text gives no completion year and mentions only the 1930 column unveiling and the capital's 1931 inauguration. It calls the style Indo-Saracenic Revival.
It blends classical forms with Mughal and Rajasthani elements such as jali screens and chhatris, in cream and red Dholpur sandstone. Red sandstone appears only on the ground-floor walls. The infobox gives a floor area of 148,000 square feet (13,700 square meters). The text says each block has four levels and about 1,000 rooms.
Central ministries have occupied the complex since independence. The North and South Blocks are being repurposed as the Yuge Yugeen Bharat National Museum, and offices are moving to new complexes in 2025 and 2026. The article gives no hours.
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