Gandhinagar

Town Planning

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Gandhinagar
LOCATED : 23 KM North of Ahmedabad

Planned in 1960’s by Prakash M Apte and H.K

Mewada

- Gandhinagar district is an administrative division of

Gujarat, India, whose headquarter are at Gandhinagar the
state capital.
- It was organized in1964.
- Ghandhinagar is located at central Gujarat.
- It is a planned city situated on the Ahmedabad -
Vadodara highway.
- It is the commercial heart of Gujarat and western India.
- It is developed as infocity .

AREA: 649 Km sqaure

POPULATION : 13 Lakhs
DENSITY : 660 inhabitants per square km
CHARACTER OF THE CITY
•Gandhinagar has many educational institutions like Dhirubhai
Ambani Institute of ICT, EDI, Indian Plasma Research Institute,
and Gujarat Law University.

•Gandhinagar's Education level is highest in Gujarat., 87.11 % all

over the Gujarat.

SECTORS

• Gandhinagar has 30 sectors which are of I km x .75 km each in

length and width.

• Each sector has a primary school, a secondary school, a higher

secondary school, a medical dispensary, a shopping center and a
maintenance office.

• Gandhinagar is developed on the neighborhood concept

STREETS
• Gandhinagar's streets are numbered (eg. road no. I , road no. 2 up
to road no. 7)

• Cross streets named for letters of the Gujarati alphabet

(eg : “k”, “kh” , ”j”).

• All streets are aligned at 30 deg. n-w and 60 deg. n-e, to avoid
direct glare of morning and evening sun while driving.

• The Gujarat assembly building is in the center of the city to make

it close to all the residents