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With an area of 57.38 km², Gandhinagar is spread on either banks of Sabarmati river. The main city is designed on the west bank of the river on 42.9 km² of land. The site is gently sloping, from north-east to south-west. Fine landscape lies along the west bank of the river Sabarmati.
Gandhinagar is perhaps the only new capital of a state in India that was designed and planned by Indian Town Planners - H.K. Mewada and P.M. Apte, then in service with the State Government. It is considered the ‘greenest’ new town in the world. Gand ...
During the 2002 Gujarat violence,as the rumour spread that muslims had burnt a train couch carrying devotees from ayodhya( this case is still pending in the courts as who started the fire) thousands of innocent Muslims, including many women and children were killed and burnt alive as violence spilled into Gandhinagar. The police took active part in the voilence under political influence.
On September 26, 2002, two gunmen entered the Hindu Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar and started firing indiscriminately at worshippers. After a 13-h ...
In 1960, the old Bombay state was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat, with Ahmedabad as the first capital of Gujarat. Gandhinagar was planned to be the new capital of Gujarat, and the capital was moved there in 1970. It is named after Mahatma Gandhi, who was born in Porbandar in Gujarat.
The new city, developed 25 km north of Ahmedabad is located on the bank of river Sabarmati. The site is well connected by express ways with the Ahmedabad-Delhi National Highway No.8. Ahmedabad-Ajmer State Highway and with Ahmedabad Airport. It is also connected by railway line by extension of a broad ...
