About GMC: - Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation is the local civic body responsible for the administration of Gandhinagar, the capital of the Indian state of Gujarat. It was set up in 2010.

History :- The new capital city was planned by Chief Architect H.K. Mewada, educated at Cornell University, and his assistant Prakash M Apte.[2][3][4] Both Mewada, and Apte had worked as trainees under legendary architect Le Corbusier in the Chandigarh Project in the 1950s. Gandhinagar's streets are numbered, and have cross streets named for letters of the Gujarati alphabet (e.g., "k", "kh", "g", "gh", "ch", "chh", "j"). All streets cross every kilometer, and at every crossing traffic circles decrease the speed of traffic.

The city has developed in four distinct phases:

Phase 1:After the city's infrastructure was completed in 1970, and until 1980, it was known as 'Gandhian City,' since it was based on Gandhi's concepts and principles.

Phase 2: Between 1980 and 1990, a time of low pollution, it was known as 'Unpolluted City'.

Phase 3: After 1990, many trees were planted, and the city became the 'Green City.'

Phase 4: In 2002, Gujarat's Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, proposed a new, triple focus for the city: it should be green, it should use solar energy, and It should be cosmopolitan.

The new city is linked with Ahmedabad on the south by a direct road, having a straight alignment and a right of way 91.44 meters (300.0 ft) wide between the proposed capital and the railway station of Khodiar about ten kilometres (six miles) to the west.

This road was proposed to be extended further to the south to join the State Highway at sarkhej near Ahmedabad. A road over bridge was to be provided at the crossing of this road and the Ahmedabad Delhi metre gauge line at Khodiar. Thus, traffic from Saurashtra area could directly come to Gandhinagar without going through Ahmedabad. The road link to Khodiar also connects the new city with Ahmedabad-Mount Abu State Highway. The site is connected to National Highway No, 8 (Bombay-Delhi) across the river by 5 km (3.1 mi) link road.

The alignment of the proposed extension of the broad-gauge railway from Sabarmati to the Fertilizer Complex at Saij near Kalol and also to the thermal power station installed in the industrial area in Gandhinagar, was to run along the western boundary of the township. It was proposed to have a railway station in the center along the western boundary of the township. The railway line was to run under proposed road over bridge at Khodiar and where it crosses the Ahmedabad-Kalol State Highway, there was to be a road over bridge. The new city was thus very well linked by road, rail and air with.all parts of the state and the country.

Dignitaries :-

Profile	Name	Address	Mobile
Mayor	Meeraben Mineshkumar Patel	Patel Vas,Raysan,Tahsil.Dist. Gandhinagar	+91-9426510183
Deputy Mayor	Natvarji Mathurji Thakor	Opposite Krushnanagar School,Randheja,Tahsil.Dist. Gandhinagar	+91-9714896713
Commissioner	J.N.Vaghela (I.A.S)

 

Standing Committees

SN	Name	Address	PHONE
1	Gaurangbhai Ravindrabhai Vyas	Plot No.1459/1, Sector-2/B, Gandhinagar	8160288793
2	Jasapalsinh Pravinsinh Bihola	B/5, PARTH APPARTMENT, Sector-28, Gandhinagar	7043555553
3	Chhaya Kantilal Trivedi	Plot No.712/1, Kisannagar, Sector-26, Gandhinagar	9724317358
4	Popatsinh Hematuji Gohil	Plot No.127/4,"CH" Type, Sector-22, Nr.Panchdev Mandir, Gandhinagar	9824515674
5	Tejalben Yogeshkumar Nayi	118, Harsiddhnagar, Sector-24, Gandhinagar	9426063471
6	Shaileshkumar Viththalbhai Patel	255,Harsiddhnagar, Sector-24, Gandhinagar	9909926941
7	Shailaben Sunilbhai Trivedi	558/6, Shreedhar Appartment,Sector-23, Gandhinagar	9712987638
8	Ushaben Vishnuji Thakor	Plot No.1219/2, Sector-7/D,Opp Chaudhari School, Gandhinagar	9737803231
9	Kailashben Gunvantbhai Sutariya	Plot No.111, Sector-8, Gandhinagar	9824785334
10	Bharatbhai Manjibhai Gohil	Plot No.1273/2, Parvati Palace, Sector-7/D, Gandhinagar	9662320524
11	Alpaben Kaushikbhai Patel	Plot No.373/2, Sector-2/B, Gandhinagar	9924215199
12	Meenaben Khodidas Makwana	Plot No.373/2, Sector-2/B, Gandhinagar	7383617918

Gandhinagar Smart City Development Limited:-

Gandhinagar Smart City Development Limited is an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) formed as part of the Gandhinagar Smart City proposal. Its basic functions are to plan, appraise, approve, release funds, implement, manage, operate, monitor and evaluate the Gandhinagar Smart City development projects. The SPV is be a limited company incorporated under the Companies Act, 2013 at the city-level.

What is Smart City mission:-

The first question is what is meant by a ‘smart city’. The answer is, there is no universally accepted definition of a smart city. It means different things to different people. The conceptualization of Smart City, therefore, varies from city to city and country to country, depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources and aspirations of the city residents. A smart city would have a different connotation in India than, say, Europe. Even in India, there is no one way of defining a smart city.

Some definitional boundaries are required to guide cities in the Mission. In the imagination of any city dweller in India, the picture of a smart city contains a wish list of infrastructure and services that describes his or her level of aspiration. To provide for the aspirations and needs of the citizens, urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development-institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure. This can be a long term goal and cities can work towards developing such comprehensive infrastructure incrementally, adding on layers of ‘smartness’.

In the approach of the Smart Cities Mission, the objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a replicable model which will act like a light house to other aspiring cities. The Smart Cities Mission of the Government is a bold, new initiative. It is meant to set examples that can be replicated both within and outside the Smart City, catalyzing the creation of similar Smart Cities in various regions and parts of the country.

The core infrastructure elements in a smart city would include:

• Adequate water supply
• Assured electricity supply
• Sanitation, including solid waste management
• Efficient urban mobility and public transport
• Affordable housing, especially for the poor
• Robust IT connectivity and digitalization
• Good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation
• Sustainable environment
• Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the elderly, and
• health and education.

Gandhinagar Smart City - Citizen Portal

Gandhinagar Smart City’s Enterprise GIS citizen portal is the authoritative GIS map of Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation with the most detailed and timely updated information developed by the Gandhinagar municipal Corporation (GMC). There are also many useful day-to-day information and services which can be accessed through this portal.

Features of the portal includes:-

Useful location based services

• Land/ property enquiry
• Work in progress enquiry
• Information about public facilities like educational, medical, financial, etc. institutes
• Find nearest or in vicinity facility

Gandhinagar Specific functionalities

Explore even more information on the map with ease and assurance.

• Book events
• Book appointments with GMC for regular work (book an appointment for updating property records)
• Report complaints/feedback (report a garbage pile or report a disease)
• Locate smart city initiatives
• Perform queries based on value (hospital with X number of beds) and locality (ATM in X km radius )

Innovative features

• 100% free - All maps and features are free to use. No in-app purchases or licensing fees
• No application purchase or license fee.
• Intelligent search - Search for addresses, building names, roads and everything
• Map Styles - Select from a variety of base maps
• Find nearby - Locate nearby amenities and government information
• Navigation - Get driving directionsand spot public transport facilities
• Detailed And Timely Updated Maps - Base maps with detailed building outlines and GMC specific boundaries
• Create features – draw regular and irregular features, add drawings and take prints

Better Design

• cleaner and neater maps - Redesigned cartography to reduce clutteredness on map while retaining detailed information
• Responsive Design - Developed with HTML5,CSS3,Javascript to optimize viewing of web portal on mobile web browsers
• Mobile Centric - Focus on mobile features to provide convenience for users on-the-go
• Streamlined Interface -Improved service flow and information display

Geographic Information System

A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. GIS sometimes refers to geographic information science, the science underlying geographic concepts, applications, and systems.

GIS can refer to a number of different technologies, processes, and methods. It is attached to many operations and has many applications related to engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business. For that reason, GIS and location intelligence applications can be the foundation for many location-enabled services that rely on analysis and visualization.

GIS can relate unrelated information by using location as the key index variable. Locations or extents in the Earth space–time may be recorded as dates/times of occurrence, and x, y, and z coordinates representing, longitude, latitude, and elevation, respectively. All Earth-based spatial–temporal location and extent references should be relatable to one another and ultimately to a "real" physical location or extent. This key characteristic of GIS has begun to open new avenues of scientific inquiry.

Enterprise GIS

A geographic information system that is integrated through an entire organization so that a large number of users can manage, share, and use spatial data and related information to address a variety of needs, including data creation, modification, visualization, analysis, and dissemination.

An Enterprise GIS system is a tool to keep all the Geographical data as well as its related information on a single platform

Benefits of Enterprise GIS

• User can see complex data on Single GIS platform in the form of map.
• User can query and do analysis on the data in single platform.
• Data digitization reduces the human efforts to manage data and no dependency of Hard copy maps
• Better decision making.
• Citizen portal can be used by citizen for viewing the data ,query the data and various tool like measurement , draw ,attaching photographs, know the properties, Navigation direction, Toilet finder , event planer etc has incorporated so citizen can be used these functionality on single platform.

Enterprise GIS envisaged for Gandhinagar Smart City :-

The Enterprise GIS Project at Gandhinagar Smart city is proposed to provide a robust, reliable and futuristic Enterprise GIS platform, aimed to provide decision support system to GSCDL officials by integrating the GIS data and the other IT applications at GSCDL.

This shall involve:

Door to door property survey

Creation of base map and separate GIS layer such as :

1.Public Utility

• Advertisement Board
• Fire Hydrant
• Fire Station
• Government Offices
• Hotels
• Landmark
• Monuments
• Museum
• Parks and Garden
• Petrol Pump
• Police Station
• Post offices
• Restaurant
• Swimming Pools
• Theaters

2.Boundary

• ANM Boundary
• Building Footprints
• Election Ward Boundary
• Plot Boundary
• UPHC Boundary
• Sector Boundary
• Zone Boundary

3.Financial Services

• ATM
• Banks

4.Health

• Blood Banks
• Clinics
• Dispensary
• Hospitals
• Medical Stores
• Pet Clinics
• Urban Health Centers

5.Transportation

• Bus Stops
• Divider
• Footpath
• Parking
• Railway Station
• Railway Track
• Road
• Road Center

6.Education

• Primary Schools
• Schools
• College
• Library

7.Service Utility

• Containers
• ESR
• Sewerage Line
• Sewerage Manhole
• Storm Water line
• Sump
• Tube wells
• Water bodies
• Water lines
• Water valves

Election Ward Boundary

GIS based citizen portal for public viewing and use

GIS based Mobile app

Department specific GIS applications and workflows

• Tagging property data to spatial layers
• Specific Workflow’s
• Location and attribute based enquiries
• What if scenario’s
• Proximity search

The Gandhinagar Smart city GIS is developed on below mentioned technologies:

• Geomation server
• GIS
• Java based spring boot
• Postgre Sql database