•Gandhinagar district is an administrative division of Gujarat, India, whose headquarters are at

Gandhinagar, the state capital.

•It was organized in 1964.
•Gandhinagar is located in central Gujarat, vadodra and Ahemdabad are located in the north.
•It is a planned city situated on the AhmedabadVadodara highway, Gandhinagar is the
commercial heart of Gujarat and western India.
•Gandhinagar is being developed as infocity.
AREA : It has an area of 649 km², and a population of
13,34,455(13LAKHS) DENSITY: 660 inhabitants per square
kilometer

CHARACTER OF THE CITY

•Infocity
•Gandhinagar has many educational institutions like
DhirubhaiAmbani 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 1 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
centre and a maintenance office.
• Gandhinagar is developed on the neighborhood concept
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LAND USE
2%

22%
25%

8%

4%

13%

26%

RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRIAL OPEN SPACE INSTITUTIONAL

CONTONMENT ROADS COMMERCIAL
LAND USE
The City has different kinds of land uses in the same place; such as offices, housing, and shops, clustered together. Some neighborhoods
have light industrial uses within them, (e.g. auto repair, craft production). Land use rules allow for mixed uses.

Gandhinagar is a planned greenfield city. It is planned in grid pattern in 30 sectors. All the sectors are self-sufficient in terms of
necessary commercial areas, Primary Education, Health facilities, residential areas and social infrastructure; the necessary facilities are
approachable within 10 min walk.

FSI

RESIDENTIAL

• Ahmedabad is currently the real estate hot-spot in Gujarat, followed by Surat and Vadodara.

• The FSI fixed by the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) in R-2 zones (city outskirts) is 1.2 and in R-1 zone, it is 1.8.

• Allowing uniform free FSI of 1.8, barring the state capital of Gandhinagar

COMMERCIAL

• Earlier:2.8 now allowing up to 4 FSI. “Under the ‘ease of doing business’

• Housing and slum redevelopment, under which it will give over 3.0 FSI
SECTORS

residential
commercial
industrial
green open land

mix landuse
SECTOR DIVISIONS
transportation and industry

middle class residential

High class residential

Central business District

SECTOR
Low class residential DEVELOPEMENT
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LINKAGES AND CONNECTIVITY

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