RECONSTRUCTION AND

DEVELOPMENT OF RAJKOT CITY

NAME : VISHWA PAMBHAR

ENROLLMENT NUMBER : 92201425159

SUBJECT : POM

DIV : A

CLASS : BBA (HONS)

 RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF
RAJKOT CITY
INTRODUCTION

Rajkot is the fourth-largest city in the state of Gujarat, India, after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat
and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area
in India, with a population of more than 2 million as of 2021. Rajkot is the 6th cleanest city of India,
and it is the 7th fastest-growing city in the world as of March 2021. The city contains the
administrative headquarters of the Rajkot District, 245 km from the state capital Gandhinagar, and is
located on the banks of the Aji and Nyari rivers. Rajkot was the capital of the Saurashtra State from
15 April 1948 to 31 October 1956, before its merger with Bombay State on 1 November 1956. Rajkot
was reincorporated into Gujarat State on 1 May 1960.

Rajkot is located at 22.3°N 70.78°E.[12] It has an average elevation of 128 metres (420 ft). The city is
located on the bank of Aji River and Nyari River which remains dry except the monsoon month of
July to September. The city is spread in the area of 170.00 km2. Rajkot is situated in the region called
Saurashtra in the Gujarat state of India. The significance of Rajkot's location is owing to the fact that
it is one of the prime industrial centres of Gujarat. Rajkot has a central location in the area called the
Kathiawar peninsula.

RAJKOT CITY VISION AND GOALS

VISION : To develop Rajkot as smart , livable and iconic city of Gujarat with inclusive growth and sustainable
development, by leveraging its historical strengths and providing state of the art infrastructure, delivery of
services and empowering ecosystem by enabling citizens to realize their dreams.

Extensive citizen inputs & city profiling has led to this vision. The goals which are critical to realize this vision
are elaborated below :

1. To develop Rajkot as International Trade & Business center.

 2. To develop Bussiness park housing commercial spaces in 30 acres catering to BFS/IT/ITes and retail
space, etc. Generating a direct employment of 22,000 and total employment of more than 50,000.

3. To create business friendly plug & play infrastructure with center & world class convention &
exihibition center and supporting technology infrastructure with portal for ease of setting up
business, on line market place & skill development for local arts and economies.

4. To develop Rajkot as a world-class tourism center. Developing Rajkot as world-class business &
tourism center by its strategic location as a center of Saurashtra & gateway to tourism circuit of
Dwarka, Somnath & Gir Forest National Park - only home to Asiatic Lions and influx of around 2.5
million tourists per year.

5. Creation of new Race Course and lake front for recreational activities. Leveraging Gandhi's legacy to
create a world-class museum in the memory of his student phase in Rajkot. To develop the Zoo with
world-class amusement park & development of lakes around it.

6. To develop Rajkot as India's one of the best sports destinations .To develop Rajkot as sports
destination of the country by developing world class infrastructure and coaching facility through
Rajkot sports promotion SPV.

7. To ensure continuous and assured 24x7 water supply focusing on one of the most critical issues of the
city, one of the most important goal A is to ensure 24x7 water supply to all the citizens. This requires
combined mix of physical infrastructures & ICT solutions such as DMA formation, SCADA, linking dams
through feeder lines, recycling of grey water, rejuvenation of local water sources etc. with convergence
of state& RMC schemes and both short-term and long term initiatives.

8. Safe and Secure Rajkot with smart traffic management another big challenge for the city is traffic
management and this requires exhaustive set of solutions such as integrated command and control
center (ICCC) for the city with surveillance and analytics and implementation of smart traffic
management to achieve following goals.

9. Implement Smart traffic management through smart solutions such as e-challans, ANPR, speed
violation detection system etc. and integration with GIS, GPS & ICCC City-wide surveillance including
all the major junctions, public spaces, BRTS corridor, allentry-exit points.

10. To solve the mobility challenge in the public transportation system. Focusing on providing a modern,
affordable and sustainable public transport to all the citizens with the help of various initiatives such
as intelligent traffic and integrated transport Management system (ITITMS), Smart Parking, promoting
non-motorized transport (NMT) with bicycle and pedestrian friendly measures.

11. Affordable housing.

Affordable housing is a major facet of city's development plan ensuring holistic inclusion in the city's quest to
attain housing for all. To achieve the aforesaid objective, the city administration is committal and has been
pioneer in implementing various housing schemes as extended by central government, state government and
other agencies. RMC has taken up Unique Housing PPP Model under PMAY for slum rehabilitation in 7 slums;
5,400 affordable housing allotted and 10,000 more in progress. The city has dormitories for homeless and
floating population with bathing & Kitchen facilities Received HUDCO design honor for 2017 for affordable
housing project. The ultimate goal in this quest is.
12. To make Rajkot slum-free city by 2022 by constructing 20,000 houses every
year.

13. Creation of new education & health facilities to provide quality healthcare and education.

14. Swachh Rajkot with beautification of the city

To make Rajkot one of the cleanest city in India and to develop public awareness and attitude to keep
Rajkot clean and beautiful with the help of public and private partnership.

15. To develop all the public toilets as state-of-the-art toilets by involving private and public participation.
16. To make zero-bins city by creatively using tipper vans.
17. To make Rajkot most energy efficient city in India and world. One of most important areas of focus for
the city is sustainability and city has already made headway in this direction by implementing city
wide conversion of streetlights to LED lights.