Ahmedabad, November 9: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Monday inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for 30 development projects worth a combined Rs 1,024 crore in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, IANS reported. All India Radio's national headlines also carried the programme, putting the day's projects at over one thousand crore rupees.

Source: IANS via The Freedom Press

Addressing a gathering in Ahmedabad, Shah said projects worth approximately Rs 1,400 crore were being inaugurated or launched on Monday alone — around Rs 1,100 crore of works linked to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and roughly Rs 400 crore involving the Roads and Buildings Department and the Union government. He said development projects worth Rs 25,000 crore have been completed in the constituency over the past seven years, and set a target of a 'green and developed Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency'.

Source: IANS via The Freedom Press

30projects inaugurated / foundation stones laid on Monday
Rs 1,024 crorecombined value of the 30-project programme
Rs 464 crorecost of the ISKCON-Sanand Elevated Corridor
Rs 25,000 croreprojects Shah said were completed in the constituency in 7 years

Among the day's openings were the four-kilometre ISKCON-Sanand Elevated Corridor, built at an estimated Rs 464 crore, which connects ISKCON Junction to the Sanand Flyover on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, and more than 1,100 houses in two sectors at Ramapir no Tekro. Shah said that in three years, people would be able to travel from Sarkhej to Gandhinagar 'without encountering a single traffic signal', moving from one flyover to another.

Source: IANS via The Freedom Press

Shah also inaugurated the 'Knowledge Hub' library in Jodhpur Ward, built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation at an estimated Rs 15.60 crore, and an Urban Primary Health Centre in the Gota-Science City area, which is expected to provide healthcare to around 80,000 people across 17 surrounding areas, including nearly 46,700 residents of slum settlements, IANS reported in a separate dispatch. Urban health centres in Gota and Chandlodia together cost Rs 9.19 crore.

Source: IANS via The Rahnuma

The wider programme spans housing, water supply — including the Jaspur water treatment plant and drainage, sewage and stormwater works — a 30 MW solar power project, smart schools, renewable energy and urban health centres. Shah said the effort is aimed at ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with population growth and urban expansion in the constituency.