Product delay shadow on new Parliament building deadline.

A ministry official said multimedia systems had been delayed due to the war in Ukraine, while supply of network switches was running two years behind schedule. The official said the delay gives way to the possibility of zeroing in on local options to meet the deadline.

Procurement of some foreign products for the new Parliament building, including multi-media systems to make it paper-less and network switches, was running behind schedule even as November — the month set as the official deadline for the completion of the building — begins in two days, sources in the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said.