AMC’s Rs30 cr revamp plan aims to ease chaos,congestion around the fort; coffee & culture will be served too.
You will not have to jostle your way through pedestrians, hawkers and traffic to approach the Bhadra Fort, if the AMC succeeds in implementing its Rs30 crore facelift plan for one of Ahmedabad’s most exquisite monuments.
The plan envisages the fort — built in 1411 AD by the founder of the city, Ahmed Shah — incorporating a pedestrian walkway, traditional cuisine outlets, a handicraft market, and a venue for art exhibitions.
The AMC hopes that the fort, as the site of a new City Centre, will augment visitors’ knowledge of the city’s past, and educate them about the projects that will be taken up for Ahmedabad’s development.
The project has been designed by the Centre for Environmental
Planning and Technology (Cept) University and the Vastu Shilpa Foundation.
“We want to restore the beauty of the Bhadra Fort and make it a City Centre,” said a source apprised of the plan. “The Rs30 crore project will include renovation and development of a pedestrian walkway from Bhadra to Teen Darwaza.”
The City Centre will host exhibitions tracing the culture of the city, as well as cultural and social programmes. It will also accommodate information centres and will screen audiovisual demonstrations for tourists. The facilities in the City Centre plaza will include a coffee house, restaurant and library.
The dean of the faculty of planning at the Cept, Utpal Sharma, said that the project aimed to revitalise the ‘diseased’ Bhadra Fort.
“No other city has such a colourful history as Ahmedabad,” Sharma said. “We have been neglecting our history.”
Cultural bastion wired to future
The plan envisages the fort — built in 1411 AD by the founder of the city, Ahmed Shah — incorporating a pedestrian walkway, traditional cuisine outlets, a handicraft market, and a venue for art exhibitions.
The AMC hopes that the fort, as the site of a new City Centre, will augment visitors’ knowledge of the city’s past, and educate them about the projects that will be taken up for Ahmedabad’s development.
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