Ahmedabad/Gandhinagar Cityscapes

[centralized pandemonium]

Wow!! Good to see such good pictures of the city where I spent almost a third of my life! Amdavad and Surat should really capitalise on the textiles boom. They already have such great facilites. The one bad thing abt Amdavad is the pollution, compared to Baroda, its extremely horrible. The "Vijay Char Rasta" and CG Road are like sorta "downtown" of the city, pretty nice stores, but sorta expensive. Ah! I miss Amdavad .

I don't have skyscraper pictures (the city is earthquake prone),

There are tons of 11-12 storied buildings in the city tho, but nothing real tall
except the revolving restaurent, which I think has been closed for a while(like 10 years).


PS: Never ever ever have food at US pizza, too friggin expensive.

[Suncity]

Good photos b3ta!

[nik]

Fine show B3ta

[Suncity]

Photo copyright saaj

[Hindustani]

Sun......................that image by Saaj is amazing. makes a strong statement.

[nik]

What a take... great photo Sun !!

[kronik]

Rs 200-crore convention, exhibition centre soon

The government of Gujarat will establish a state-of-art Convention and Exhibition Centre to host events such as international trade fairs.

The centre is porposed to be set up on both the sides of banks of Sabarmati river.

The Convention and Exhibition Centre to be set up at Bhat and Nana Chiloda on both the sides of river will occupy 80 acres of land near Indira Bridge.

The centre will comprise auditoriums, convention centre, five star hotels, business lounges, conference rooms and more and it will be established on the basis of public and private partnership.

The project will take at least three years to finish.

Though the cost of the project depends on the project developers, it is expected to cost more than Rs 200 crore.

This apart, the government has plans to invite a group of international hotels having chains of five star hotels across the country, however, the plan is still in the pipeline.

This is to be noted that hardly two or three international trade fairs are being organised in the state either during the kite festival or Navratri.

Therefore, it was learnt that the beuraucrats are not confident enough of whether this costly project will give any returns.

[Indias_finest]

[nik]

Great.. so thats the revolving restaurant

[kronik]

FICCI to set up biotech resource centre in Ahmedabad

To assist Small and Medium size Enterprises (SME) unfold their entrepreneurial potential in biotechnology, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), in collaboration with European Union (EU) and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), will set up a Biotechnology Resource Centre in Ahmedabad.

This resource centre will primarily render services with in-house information and intranet services on patents and state-of-the-art technology, based upon continuous networking with relevant European organisations.

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Apollo Tyres to set up Rs 150 cr hospital in Ahmedabad

Apollo Tyres Group will invest Rs 150 crore in 500-bed hospital in Ahmedabad.

In all Apollo Tyres will be investing Rs 250 crore in Gujarat this year, which also include Rs 100 crore in Vadodara based unit of the company.

Chairman and managing director of Apollo Tyres Onkar Kanwar said, "We plan to construct a chain of 20 such hospitals across the country in next five years among which, one each wiil be set up in Ahmedabad and Gurgaon."

[b3ta]

Originally Posted by Luckystreak

Originally Posted by 2020vision

This type of condo + plaza set up seems to be very common in the area. I remember seeing a lot those everywhere on my trip there.

Heres another one I found on the internet.

[magestom]

I read somewhere that Gujurat is India's most industrialized state! Even more that Mumbai. It has good infrastructure.

[Indias_finest]

^ I went there last in 2003 and remember seeing plently of those plazas-condos settings in vadodra and Amdavad . Wonder if they are found elsewhere in India !?

[B1acksun]

I wish some of you nice people would release these awesome India images in the public domain so that they can be used in wikipedia articles :<

[Indias_finest]

copyrights fuersten

[hetan_ashar]

Hi, can anyone help with upcoming residential projects and builders/ developers in Ahmedabad.

Regards,
Hetan

[p.raghavendra6]

Originally Posted by b3ta

I don't have skyscraper pictures (the city is earthquake prone), but these are from a group protesting the commercialization of public space at the National Institute of Design, near Ahmedabad.

Sattelite Road






Vijay Cross




Premchandnagar and CG Road














Ahmedabad is progressing really fast, Gujarat has really high state gdp growth rates (over 10% for the past 10 years, 15.8% last year). Other cities in the state are also doing well, Gandhinager is a lot greener and cleaner than Ahmedabad. Surat and Baroda are richer (per capita), but I can't find good new pics of those cities.

Heres a crummy photo (public domain, from wikipedia) of the textile district in Surat

Iam happy to see this flyover in SSC.

This is the longest one i ever saw(probably 2.5 to 3 KM long).

I would like to see more pics from Surat. there are many nice buildings on Ghod Dhod road, parle point, ring road etc.

The roads there are far better than those I found in Pune.

[greatshankar]

very nice pictures

[Suncity]

photo copyright atomik_mac

[Hindustani]

Ahmedabad is literally a concrete jungle it seems. Just look at the quantity of midrises in the city.