Ahmedabad: Community-use plots reserved

AHMEDABAD: Following the merger of new areas into the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) limits, the board of the apex planning body, AUDA, on Friday finalized reserved plots for community use across six Town Planning (TP) schemes. In another major decision, nearly 799 hectares of land in Virochannagar in Chharodi, lying north of the Sanand-Viramgam Road, has been converted from agricultural to industrial use. The decision was taken keeping in mind the needs of the Sanand industrial estate.
In the case of the six TP schemes, land has been earmarked for various purposes.These TP schemes are Sanand, Lilapur-Ognaj, Ognaj-Chharodi-Khodiyar, Bareja, Manipur- Godhavi, and Jaspur-Khodiyar. Eighteen hectares have been assigned for housing for socially and economically weaker sections, 14 hectares for parks and gardens, and 53 hectares for social infrastructure such as schools, shopping centres, and transport and civic utilities.
The AUDA board also handed over the authority to the AMC to prepare TP schemes in the newly merged areas between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad. The AMC is also empowered to conduct anti-encroachment drives and lay new roads and establish utilities.