New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has decided to do away with a cabinet decision taken under then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to grant him a memorial, media reports have said.

In the year 2000, the Vajpayee government had decided that "henceforth government shall not develop any samadhi for departed leaders".

The Rashtriya Smriti Sthal, completed in 2014 near the Rajghat complex, is where the last rites of the country's leaders are conducted and plaques set up in their memory.

Several television channels have reported that the government has decided to grant a 1.5-acre plot to have a samadhi built to Vajpayee near the Sthal.

Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, who passed away in 2008, has not even a plaque in his name at the site. P.V. Narasimha Rao and Chandra Shekhar, who died in 2004 and 2007, respectively, have plaques. In 2015, the Centre gave the name Jananayak Sthal to Chandra Shekhar's plaque.

All the former Prime Ministers have samadhis or plaques along the Yamuna's banks except for VP and Morarji Desai, whose memorial, Abhay Ghat, is in Ahmedabad.

Former Presidents who have their memorials in Delhi are Giani Zail Singh and Shankar Dayal Sharma, while former Deputy Prime Ministers so honoured are Jagjivan Ram and Devi Lal.