Bendre Lisha Chunnilal

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 A ward is a smallest administrative unit of a city. Planners’ task is to develop and plan a city that responds better to both the residents and environment. For such a responsive city, one not only needs to improve the whole, but to involve and enhance the parts as required too. Certain measures might be effective when carried out as centralized systems city-wide, while certain might be area specific issues that are needed to be resolved. This attempts to resolve such area specific issues in the ward of Paldi, Ahmadabad. Ahmadabad is the largest city in Gujarat in terms of population as well as in area. It is also the seventh largest metropolitan and the third fastest growing cities in India. Ahmadabad has been of a critical importance to India even before Independence. It was the place from where Gandhi carried out the Jan Satyagraha movement. Under the British rule, it developed as “Manchester of the East”, a hub for textile mills in India. This brought in a lot of trade and commerce to the city. Paldi is one such affluent ward lying in the south-west banks of the river Sabarmati.The planning process aims to address few questions and to develop an understanding towards them, such as: 1. What is the current scenario of the ward? 2. How do we see the wards 10 years from now? 3. What issues or challenges do we need to address as a priority? 4. What are the necessary interventions to achieve our vision for the future? 5. Will those interventions be sufficient? The methodology and strategy aim to answer all these questions and come up with an effective plan for the ward.