Crime-ridden Amraiwadi, Ramapir No Tekro & Khohara to be turned into model areas.
Three Ahmedabad localities, long notorious for their slums and high crime rate, may soon be transformed into model areas of the city. These three localities are Amraiwadi, Ramapir No Tekro and Khohara.
Highly placed sources in the state government told DNA that chief minister Narendra Modi himself is keen to give these chaotic, crime-ridden localities a facelift. For this reason, he is reported to be interested in the early implementation of a project proposed for the three localities by a city-based realty firm.
The firm wants to build 1BHK flats on 33% of the total land area currently occupied by the slums. The rest of the slum land will be sold off for commercial development.
The sources said the state government had asked the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to make an assessment of the project’s feasibility. According to sources, the AMC has already submitted its report to the state government.
Sources in the AMC said the civic body had approved of the idea behind the proposal but work on the project could not be started because some policy issues (such as transfer of development rights) still have to be sorted out. The chief minister, however, has been pushing the project for acceptance. At a meeting held recently, Modi again issued instructions that work on the project be started on a priority.
The project proposes construction on around five plots in the three slum areas. According to AMC records, the total land area of the five plots taken together comes to 5,88,213 square metres. Sources said that the project proposes to build 9,120 tenement units on the five plots, along with 240 amenity units. Each tenement unit will consist of a living room, bedroom, kitchen, wash room and a balcony.
The realty firm which has submitted the project has also stated that it would make temporary residential arrangements to which the people living in the slums could be shifted, once construction of the 1BHK units begins.
“But work on the project is getting delayed because of differences between the AMC and the realty firm over profit-sharing margins,” a senior AMC official said.
The state Urban Development Department is reported to be giving final touches to the government’s new slum development policy. Sources said that the project may ultimately be merged with the new policy.
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