SABARMATI RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT

LIFESTYLE OF AHMEDABAD:

•  The ancient value system of the Gujarati community binds people strongly, keeping them grounded in their age old traditions and remain unaffected by the urbanization of the city. This influences the people of Ahmedabad, making them simple. They take active articipation in sports like cricket, golf, hockey.

ACTIVITIES & CULTURE OF AHMEDABAD:• When it is the time for festivity, the whole city gets excited and celebrates the festive occasion with zest and zeal.

• People out here are very fond of food. (this explains the reason why the restaurants and cafes in Ahmedabad are always thronged by people).

• Ahmedabadi people derive great pleasure in shopping. It is owing to this reason that, the shopping

malls are mushrooming in number.

• Other popular places include picnic spots, theatres, and water parks.

• Popular celebrations and observances include Uttarayan, an annual kite-flying day on

14 and 15 January.

• Nine nights of Navratri are celebrated with people performing Garba, the most popular folk dance

of Gujarat, at venues across the city.

• The annual Rath Yatra procession on the Ashadh-sud-bij date of the Hindu calendar and the procession of Tajia during the Muslim holy month of Muharram are important events.

• Manek Chowk is an open square near the centre of the city that functions as a vegetable market in the morning and a jewellery market in the afternoon & it is better known for its food stalls in the evening.

• Parts of Ahmedabad are known for their folk art.

• Three main literary institutions were established in Ahmedabad for the promotion

of Gujarati literature.

• Saptak School of Music festival is held in the first week of the new year.

• The shops at the Law Garden sell mirror work handicraft.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS:• Sabarmati Ashram

• Kankaria Lake

• Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

• Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Museum

• Jama Masjid

• Sidi Bashir Mosque

• Vastrapur Lake

• Lalbhai Dalpatbhai museum

• Sanskar Kendra

• Sardar Patel Stadium

• Ellis Bridge

• Nagina Wadi

• Nehru Bridge

Sabarmati Ashram

Jama Masjid Sardar Patel Stadium

Akshardham Temple

Science City Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Museum

• Bhadra Fort ROLE OF SABARMATI RIVER :• Akshardham Temple

• Science City

• Vaishnodevi Temple

• Amar dham

• ISKCON Temple

• Kamla Nehru Zoo

• Law Garden

• Calico Textile Museum

• Auto World Vintage Car museum

• Husain Doshi Gufa

• Adalaj Step Well

• Halthi Singh Jain Temple

• Sabarmati River is one of the biggest western flowing river of Gujarat that Originates from Dhebar Lake in Aravalli range of Rajasthan and ends in Gulf of Cambay of Arabian Sea. It has a maximum length of 300 km and width of 105 km

REASON FOR PROPOSAL OF SABARMATI RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT:

SABARMATI RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT:• The Sabarmati Riverfront project is an environmental improvement, social upliftment and urban rejuvenation project that will

renew Ahmedabad.

• The project is being developed by the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Corporation Ltd. (SRFDCL), a company wholly owned by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. 

PROJECT OBJCTIVES:• To reclaim the private river edge as a Public asset and restore the city’s relationship with its river.

• Create a conducive urban environment.

• Create an identity for the city.

KEY ASPECTS OF PROJECT :• Overall environmental improvement.

• Creating high quality public open spaces.

• Providing adequate public access to the river.

• Rehabilitating the slums.

• Creating vibrant urban neighborhoods.

• Providing city level infrastructure.

CHALLANGES:• 12000 hutments on both banks of the river occupying nearly 20% of critical project area.• Unorganized Gujari Bazaar of more than 1200 vendors on the eastern bank and Court Litigation.• Nearly 200 Dhobis using both the banks of the river for washing activities.• Thoroughly polluted and contaminated Sabarmati through 40 storm water outlets.

• FIRST PROPOSAL:

• The first proposal was formulated in 1961 by the French architect Bernard Kohn which suggested to reclaim 30 ha of land on

both the banks of the river in order to develop a mix of commercial, recreational and residential activities in some points of the

river, mainly close to the major bridges.

• The feasibility of such proposal was studied and confirmed in 1966 by a commission appointed by the government of Gujarat

and a further proposal was done in 1976 by a group of local professionals including Ahmedabad Study Action Group, the

architect Hasmukh C Patel and K B Mehta Builders.

• The group agreed on the reclamation of land and proposed the strengthening of the Pirana Sewage Treatment Plant in the south

of Ahmedabad and the construction of retaining walls to protect the city from floods and to give space for development. The

need to improve the sewerage system was confirmed also in the National River Conservation Plan of 1992 for the interception

and diversion works, the construction of trunk sewers, the desilting of storm.

first proposal by architect Bernard Kohn

MAIN DECLARED GOALS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH ACTIONS ARE: - the elimination of the danger of floods in the current

context of climate change;- the establishment of better hygienic conditions through a new sewerage system;- the ground water recharge through the storage of water within the river bed;- the improvement of the living conditions of the slum dwellers.

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