Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated new residential quarters for Gujarat MLAs on Thursday in Sector 17 of Gandhinagar. According to a government release, the complex has 216 apartments in 12 towers, which have been built at an estimated cost of Rs 325 crore. Additionally, Shah laid the foundation stone for a road project in Sanand taluka of Ahmedabaddistrict.
Amit Shah is a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Gandhinagar. He reached the state capital on the third day of his Gujarat visit amid the Diwali festivities.
[img=1px,1px]https://data.indianexpress.com/election2019/track_1x1.jpg[/img]Details of the constructed apartments
Each apartment has three bedrooms and is spread over 238.45 square metres (about 2,500 sqft). The complex has a large garden, multipurpose hall, community hall, swimming pool, gymnasium, canteen, indoor sports equipment, a dispensary and a provision store.
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In 1971, one-bhk apartments were constructed in Sector 17 of Gandhinagar for the MLAs. However, to meet the demand in 1990-91, a total of 168 apartments with two bedrooms were constructed in 14 blocks in Sector 21. Currently, the Gujarat assembly has 182 MLAs, and many of them are still living in this facility.
Road conversion into six lanes
The home minister also laid the foundation stone of a project to construct six lanes on the Shantipura-Koharj GIDC section of the Ahmedabad-Maliya road, which currently has four lanes. The need to extend the road stems from the need to manage an average daily traffic of nearly 43,000 vehicles. A total of 28.8 km of the road will be converted into six lanes with an estimated cost of Rs 805 crore.
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Once completed, the project will facilitate long-distance traffic going towards Surendranagar, Shankheshwar, Radhanpur and Patan in addition to industrial centres like Sanand and Viramgam, it added.
(With PTI Inputs) |
