What is the name of the architect in charge of the new building of the…

Concept: In a major public-building project the “architect in charge” is the design professional — or the principal of the design firm — appointed as consultant of record to prepare the master plan and the building design. That role is separate from the political authority that commissions the work, from the construction agency that executes it, and from officials who hold unrelated public offices.

Application: The new Parliament House in New Delhi is the centrepiece of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project. The design-consultancy contract for Central Vista was awarded in October 2019, after a public tender, to HCP Design, Planning and Management Pvt. Ltd. of Ahmedabad. The firm's principal and lead architect is Bimal Patel, an architect and urban planner who also serves as president of CEPT University and who was conferred the Padma Shri in 2019. Construction was carried out by Tata Projects Ltd., and the building was inaugurated on 28 May 2023.

Cross-check — placing the other names given in the question:

• Arun Goel: a 1985-batch IAS officer of the Punjab cadre, formerly Secretary in the Ministry of Heavy Industries, who assumed charge as an Election Commissioner of India in November 2022 — a constitutional office, not a design commission.

• Anoop Rai: public records for this name point to an academic in finance, and to no architectural practice connected with the Central Vista commission.

• “More than one of the above”: the design consultancy was awarded to one firm working under one principal architect, so authorship of record rests with a single name.

• “None of the above”: the architect of record for the project, Bimal Patel, is himself among the names given in the question.

Result: the architect in charge of the new building of the Parliament of India is Padma Shri Bimal Patel. The Bihar Public Service Commission's official final answer key for this 2023 General Studies paper records the same choice.