Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government has withdrawn its plan to expand the Gujarat International Finance-Tec (GIFT) City and has shifted its development rights to the Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (GUDA). This decision was announced through a notification issued by the Urban Development Department on Tuesday, June 11, 2024. The Urban Development Department issued notifications in November 2022 and November 2023 to expand Gift City to 996 hectares in five surrounding villages. These no...Read More

Gandhinagar: Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today gave in-principle approval to allocate a total of Rs. 483.71 crore for 424 different development works in three metro cities—Gandhinagar, Surat, and Vadodara. The CM allocated these funds from the Swarnim Jayanti Chief Minister Urban Development Scheme initiated in 2010 by then CM of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Accordingly, the Chief Minister has given in-principle approval for the allocation of Rs 20.74 crore to the Gandhinagar U...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government is considering instituting a committee to coordinate the civic body of the twin cities Amdavad and Gandhinagar. As soon as the committee is formed, it will be responsible for synchronizing the development projects of Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC), Gandhinagar municipal corporation (GMC), as well as villages and towns under Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar urban development authorities (AUDA & GUDA). Even though there is no official announcement on t...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gandhinagar MP and Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, will on the coming Sunday either inaugurate or hold ‘Khat Mahurat’ for Rs 198 crore worth of development projects of the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation and Rs 81 crore worth of development works of GUDA from Mahatma Mandir. The government has instructed the civic body and GUDA to complete the various development projects that are in the various stages of implementation at the earliest keeping in mind the assembly polls. ...Read More

Gandhinagar: In a major decision, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today made announcement to handover the posts of Chairman of urban area development authorities to related municipal commissioners. At present, the post of chairman is largely occupied by related district collectors. Relieving district collectors from this responsibility will give them more time for revenue related matters and implementation of state government's other public oriented services including Seva Setu, said...Read More

Gandhinagar: Encouraged by its initial success, Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority(GUDA) has taken a decision to expand the GBike programme of cycle sharing. According to GUDA, 400 more cycles are to be added to GBike operation covering Gandhinagar town and some areas of GUDA. "The project was started with 10 cycle stands and 100 cycles covering bus-stop, gardens and other places. The citizens have overwhelmingly responded to the project by using daily 350-400 trips. Encouraged by th...Read More