According to experts, the extension will ensure planned and horizontal development of the city. Auda has proposed to conduct a survey of the additional area for future development.
Urban Development and Urban Housing Department on Friday announced the extension of Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda)’s limits by about 600 sq km to almost 1900 sq km. This has been done by bringing 68 villages under its ambit. The move expands the area under Auda by (almost) half - hitherto, 1300 sq km was covered by the organisation.
According to experts, the extension will ensure planned and horizontal development of the city. Auda has proposed to conduct a survey of the additional area for future development.
A senior Auda official said that it would take six months to complete the survey. The motto behind merging these 68 villages was to have planned development as the city limits were expanding. With many developers coming to city periphery with commercial, industrial and residential projects, development without planning could cause problems as were witnessed in Bopal earlier. “We believe that developers should follow development and it shouldn’t be the other way round,” added the official.
In the first phase, Auda will survey six villages that are near the Tata’s ambitious Nano project in Chharodi. These villages are Chharodi, Vasna, Iyava, Chekhla, Khoda and Virochannagar. Survey will be taken up in other villages later.
Vijay Shah, a city-based developer, said, “Auda, by increasing its limits, will not only improve the infrastructure of the city but will make many developers to plan projects on the outskirts of the city.”
The move would make Urban Development department and Auda provide developers facilities like roads, gardens, grounds and more.
As a result, developers would get all facilities in advance, Shah added.
With the addition of area under Auda, land prices in the merged area may go up. However, there are also chances that the speculative real estate market will calm down because of the availability of additional land.
Chairman and managing director of City Estate Management, Praveen Bavadiya, said, “If Auda provides developed land to developers, it will make their task of executing new projects much easier.”
He felt that with land parcels coming in big chunks, land prices would get cheaper compared to prevailing prices. This would lead to cost-effective
houses.
Auda will initially make development plan for these areas, followed by town planning (TP) schemes.
However, the process of making development plan will take some time after the survey in the respective area is over.
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