Ahmedabad body now permits development in Gokuldham agri zone
AHMEDABAD: Twelve years after the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) approved the layout for Gokuldham township, the authority’s chairman has been empowered to issue development and revised development permissions for the agricultural land within the township. A dispute surfaced in April 2014, resulting in a halt to these permissions. The township covers over 10 lakh square meters in Sanand taluka, adjacent to Ahmedabad city. On October 8, 2002, Auda authorized the comprehensive layout plan for Gokuldham, which spans more than 50 hectares of land under the General Development Control Regulations of that time. Permissible specifications included an FSI of 1.2,…