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LIVABLE HANSOL Understanding City Studio | CEPT University Divyanshu Prakash
PG190310
PREFACE
This document is a condensation of the UNDERSTANDING THE CITY studio of Semester 1, Faculty of Planning of CEPT University. The objective of the studio is to make the students develop a thorough understanding of an urban precinct through a detailed study on the city of Ahmedabad and analysis on its fundamental parameters. As a part of the studio, each student was given a 1 square kilometre area in Ahmedabad. A total of 12 exercises were conducted over a span of 16 weeks that covered all the basic aspects regarding city planning. This document contains a selective comprehension of all the exercises covered during these days with inferences and analysis, done on the precinct allotted to me, Hansol of North Ahmedabad. The precinct area, Hansol is the one precinct whose unique morphology. The study highlights how this unique character in morphology was evolved, what impact did it have on the infrastructural devel opment in the precinct, and how does it influence the liveability in Hansol. All the information produced are authentic and are based on site studies and primary surveys conducted during the prescribed time period. The Studio ends with a synthesis involving similar analysis from various other precincts from different parts of Ahmedabad.
Acknowledgement I would sincerely like to thank our studio guide Prof. Narendra Mangwani sir, our academic associate Ms. Delicia Konsam ma’am for guiding and assisting me throughout the studio. I am also very grateful to all the other professors and teaching associates of the foundation studio 2019, for their inputs and comments, which led to holistic learning in this duration. I express my deepest gratitude towards my family, each and every member of W5 bay, friends and seniors for supporting me, keeping faith and pushing me to work to my best.
Disclaimer The information presented in this document has been studied and collated by the author as part of the Foundation studio ‘Understanding the city’ under Faculty of Planning, CEPT University. Any omissions and errors are deeply regretted. Resemblance to any previous work is coincidental. The research is for academic purposes only
“ Every time I describe the city livable I am saying something about Hansol, Ahmedabad�
3.2.Carriageway width 3.3.Traffic and traffic control 3.4.Travel behaviour 3.5.Trip distribution by income 3.6.Trip distribution by purpose
4.1.Water supply 4.2.Sewerage 4.3.Storm water 4.4.Solid waste
5.1.Income distribution household expenditure 5.2.Jobs and job centres 5.3. Gender Inequality
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6.1.Noli’s map 6.2.Public space – Hansol 6.3 Talking and vending space (gardens & streets)
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8 GOVERNANCE
ECONOMY & LIVELIHOOD
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7.1 Urban Primary Health care Centre. Hansol sadarnagar
CONCLUSION
2.1. Land use 2.2.Land ownership 1.3 Connectivity 2.3.Jantri rate distribution 23.1 Market Rate 1.4 Landmarks & 2.4.FSI distribution Predominent 2.5.Built vs open Feature 2.6.Building height 2.7.Building Typology 1.5 Hansol Then 2.8.Population density ttand now -Time 2.9.Ground coverage vs line of land FSI consumption acquisition
3.1.Streets and node density
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PUBLIC REALM
1.2 Location & Settlements
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INFRASTRUCTURE
1.1 About Theme
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LAND CHARACTER& BUILT FORM
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
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TRANSPORTATION
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1.1. ABOUT LIVABLE HANSOL
1.2. LOCATION
The concept embraces cognate notions such as quality of life, character of the place, social and cultural expression. The idea of liveability bridges many of the other concepts. It refers to the extent to which the attributes of a particular place can, as they interact with one another and with activities in other places, satisfy residents by meeting their economic, social, and cultural needs, promoting their health and well-being. The method addresse social and economic change in from household to state.
The Hansol is located on the north eastern side of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Hansol (Ahmedabad) that is about 12.7 km from CEPT UNIVERSITY campus. Spreading across 1 sq. km area in between sindhi ambavadi, sadarnagar police station, St. Xavier school. The precinct has two major roads airport road, and a Gandhi Nagar Ahmedabad road, which intersect each other and create a node known as airport circle or Indra bridge circle.
1.3. CONNECTIVITY AND WALKABILITY
1. 4. LANDMARKS AND PREDOMINENT FEATURES MORPHOLOGY
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The precinct has largely residential fabric with builtdensity vary from north to south. There is gradual change observed in the height of building from south to north. the settlement towards the south of near airport runway has more built density with very low margins while in north it has been provided with proper setbacks.
Public transport accessibility index (buses/hr to major destinations) based on an average of 10 trips
94%
26,864
more time in public transport
Total Population
268 Population/ha
LANDMARKS
71% lesser cost than 2-wheeler
BLOCK AREA (SQM)
The 18 m wide airport road and 30m wide gandhi nagar ahmedabad road are the two major access in the precinct . There is 1 major node created by the intersection of two major road called Indra Bridge Circle, which is along the airport road within the area limits in the precinct. There are some physical landmarks which identified the precinct.
IDENTIFYING TYPOLOGY The connectivity and accesibility in hansol the princint is high due to the high connected node ratio and high road density which suggest more connectivity and movement options. Block perimeter and area high in some part of the precinct and node density is proportionately high, indicating walkable neighbour hood in some part of the precinct.
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PRECINCT TRANSFORMATION - HISTORIAL ANALYSIS Expansion of textile industry and introduction of Railways. Emergence of social identity through textile industry and working class. Population increases and the tight bond with old city loosed.
Division of land into public and private Agriculture lands are converted into non agriculture lands
Introduction of Airport Runway and take over of Muncipality of Ahmedabad by Ellite Group. Opening up of proper toen planning scheme and urban centres with the new criteria for land valuation.
Towards Independance and Partition Zoining introduced Land valuation criteria established Due to partition many refugees settled in Ahmedabad demolished the walls, became the area for the business establishment. These area become sindhi markets and muncipal limits expands.
1880
1910
1932
1947
2019
2014
2003
1999
Bunglows are replaced by the Residential Appartments internally to accomodate large population. Commercilization Started.
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Recoginition of city of Ahmedabad
Due to the increase in the passenger flow at airport the area near the airport starts commercializing. TP Scheme Hansol-68 get sanctioned and implemented.
TP Scheme Draft of town planning scheme introduced from the government of India to ensure wellplanned development and to provide the basic amenities like road, water, drainage, street lights, etc and facilities like schools, playgrounds, healthcare centres, etc.
Construction of Indra Bridge and widening of Airpoty Road. Widening of road to avoid the traffic conjection. Bunglow typology influnces the builtform
LAND ACQUISITION Residential zone develop according to the Master plan of 1996.
From 1947, migrants from Pakistan mostly Sindhis started migrating to different parts of India.
Residential typology changes from gamatal to row houses.
They were given houses on land outskirt of ahmedabad city near the hansol village. The land was originally agriculture plots of farmers of hansol which was acquired through land acquisition ,without any compensation. (area marked in red color).
AMTS Started.
1980
At first the Row houses were provided after that the rent has increased in 1980s. After year 1985, people start building between the margins and the existing buildings which results the dense morphology in the Hansol.
1991
Since 2000 there has not been any major transformation when TP Scheme started getting implemented in several parts of Ahmedabad.
Airport get operational and the market start developing
TP Scheme Hansol-68
The land in the northern part of the precinct developed under the TPS Hansol-68 of 2004.
1.5. HANSOL - THEN & NOW For many years Britishers were ruling India. In year 1937 they makes first runway strip for transportation of good, as we all know that Ahmedabad is famous for its cotton textile. In, year 1947 when India got independence with the major partition of two countries India and Pakistan. The major transformation is seen when in 1947 after partition of India and Pakistan the sindhi community migrate towards India and situated in Ahmedabad but the local Guajarati don’t except their presence, so they shifted outskirts of Ahmedabad in sadarnagar and hansol. After July 1950, once AMC was established. After in 1991 when government of India announce the airport got operational. After 2 years in 1993 the people came and saw the high amount of land settlement which was comparatively high from 1947. In year 2001 to 2003 government announce town planning scheme of the area for the development. In 2004 the draft of HANSOL TP scheme was made and got approved in 2008 by the government of India. The there is no major transformation seen from year 2000 to 2019. Only the build form hardly changes with upcoming projects and the major transformation is seen in ecology of the precinct.
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2. LAND CHARACTER & BUILT FORM
2.1. LAND USE
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2.2. LAND OWNERSHIP
2.2.1. LAND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
2.3 JANTRI RATE
2.3.1. MARKET RATE
The land values using Jantri and Market Rates vary greatly, between Rs. 1650 to Rs.54,500 per square meter (Jantri rate) and Rs. 2750 to Rs. 100,000 per square meter (Market Rate). Both maps show that the most valuable parcels are along the bank of the Sabarmati River called “Riverfront”, where the land was evaluated at Rs. 54,500 per m2 by Jantri rate and Rs. 100,000 per m2 by Market rate in ahmedabad. Other high value parcels are next to the City center (2 to 4 km distance from the CBD) and in the North of Ahmedabad (from 6 to 8 km from the CBD). The market values in these areas vary from Rupees 26,000 to 80,000 per square meter. Airport (403 ha) the land market value was estimated at Rupees 48,000 per square meter. These valuable land areas are preventing the extension of the city core in the Northern part of the city. jantri rates also shown the similar growth pattern the rates are increasing as we move to east from gamtal to arterial roads.
2.4. FSI DISTRIBUTION
AVERAGE FSI
1.8 NORTH
2
SOUTH
Majority of building are 30-40 years old and where built with lower FSI and thus Making it Low rise residential precinct. FSI 1.8 prescribed in regulation was considered equivalent to 2.7 for present situation.The plots were then classified according to utilization of FSI. Low consumption of FSI i.e. less than 45% of FSI, medium consumption of FSI between 45% and 85% of FSI” and high consumption over 85% of FSI. Land related to unconsumed FSI was considered as marketable land.
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BUILDING USE
LEGEND
2. LAND CHARACTER & BUILT FORM
2.7. BUILT TYPOLOGY AND EDGE CONDITIONS
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2.9. GROUND COVERAGE VS. FSI CONSUMPTION
2.5. BUILT VS. OPEN
In the precinct, 60% of the total area lies in the south of the Airport road and 40% of the area lies towards north. In this only 30%is built and rest 70% is unbuilt. There is high development potential towards north.
2.6. BUILDING HEIGHT
There is gradual gradation of built height from north to south of the precinct the change in the building byelaws over the period of time can be seen from the choice of typology and also due to the presence of Airport.
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2.8. POPULATION DENSITY From the case of precinct, it can be conclude that higher the FSI can be achived through increase coverage or increased building height in south, an increased coverage has resulted in waste of land area with no set backs and very congested road width. More efficient way of planning it seems to be in one in north where there was a coverage of less than 40% but more number of floors.
No. of dwelling Units
2500 2000
75
Net Residential DU/Ha
1500 1000
268
500
0
Typology
Population Density PPH
Despite of low built density in the north most half pf the total population of precinct reside in north.
5,656 Total Dwelling Units
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3. TRANSPORTATION
3.1. STREETS - ACCESSIBILITY & WAKABILITY
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Due to the high CNR and high density suggest more connectivity and movement option. block parameter are low and node density is also prportionally high, indicating a walkable neighbourhood. Hansol and specifically the precinct located between the airport road and sadar patel road, is mix with the residential typolpgy and some commercial typology. With predominance of rowhouses inthe residential typology. Commercial typology is along with main road.
BLOCK AREA (SQM)
22773 TOTAL LENGTH (METERS)
22% AREA UNDER STREET
229 TOTAL NODES
445 AVERAGE BLOCK PERIMETER
Road Density -227.74 M/Ha Node Density- 1.84 No/Ha Link Node Ratio (Total Links / Intersection Nodes)- 1.71 Area Under Roads- 22% Connected Node Ratio (Total Intersecting Nodes/ Intersecting Nodes + Dead Ends) -0.74
The occurance of mix typology along the sub arterial road is result of this provide an opportunity of use plot and building edges for the commercial and public activities and enchroments on the contradiction in the apartments with the mixuse these edges become porous. Converting the Adjacent streets into very active and dynamic Public Space.
3.2. STREETS CHARACTER AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION
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MAPPING TRAFFIC FLOW- SINDH AMBAVADI JUNCTION
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MAPPING TRAFFIC FLOW - SADAR PATEL ROAD
TRAFFIC CONJECTION (V/C RATIO)
15882 PCU
TOTAL TRAFFIC FLOW
The street become a plateform for the social interaction supported by the various commercial and informal activities. High traffic movement and lot of commercial activity observed along the arterial and sub arterial road, no informal activity is going on arterial road only road side parking. On contrary there is amix a formal and informal market along the sub arterial road and ground floor splits out on the streets to accomodate the activities of the streets. Although the number and the density of the conflicts is high the presence of high visibility ob the junctionshelps to avoid accidents.
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3. TRANSPORTATION
3.3. TRAVEL PATTERN 3.3.1. TRIP DISTRIBUTION BY MODE
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People mostly use 2 wheelers and travel for average 2-18 kms distance based on income group segregation. Spending Rs.0-50 per kilometre travelled depending of different modes People usually travel from door to door using a single transport mode. However, in some cases, the travel pattern changes to walking and public transport usage which usually splits. For travel far people use 4 wheelers whichcost Rs.9/km for the average Men and women have more work trips than education. Men make more work trips than women. Showing higher employment of men than women. Higher income groups travel more than 4 times the distance travelled by lower income groups. The cost incurred per km by them is higher as they mostly use 4 wheelers.
3.3.2. TRIP DISTRIBUTION BY INCOME The predominant travel by income group in the precinct is by 50000 to 1 lakhs group Having 50% share of work and education.
3.3. TRAVEL PATTERN 3.3.3. TRIP DISTRIBUTION BY GENDER
3.3.4. TRIP DISTRIBUTION BY LENGTH & TRIP RATE
Predominant travel pattern by gender in WORK are by MALES ONLY 3% of female works Rest of 97% work is by males. Predominant travel pattern by gender in education is by males
45% of female and rest of 55% males travel for education in precinct
Longer trips are made in higher income group with 3.25 km average trip length as compared to the low and medium income group with 2.4 average trip length. 88% of the people in high medium income group make work trip less than 10 km. 75% of low medium income group choses to live near work place to save time and money. Men make longer trips to work with average distance of 5 km while women make shorter trips to work with average distance of 2.5 km.
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STORM WATER DRAINAGE
SOLID WASTE
4. INFRASTRUCTURE
SLIVER BIN LOCATION
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SLIVER BIN IN RESIDENTIAL
SLIVER BIN IN COMMERCIAL
Storm Water Catchpit
Solid Waste collection and disposal in Ahmedabad is being carried out by Ahmedabad Municipal= Corporation as an obligatory function. The total waste generated in the city is of the order of 2100 tonnes per day Waste collected from the city is disposed at 84 ha, Pirana land fill site approximately 22 kmaway from the farthest end on Western side and 18 km away from the farthest point oneastern side, near NarolSarkhej Octroi Checkpost. .
Storm water drains in the city cover only 23% of the roads in the city. There are three types of drains laid in the city- RCC pipes,Box type drains Arch drains. These storm water drains discharge storm water into River Sabarmati at 42 locations, of which currently only 27 locations are functional. Negligence of natural drainage in the growth and development of Ahmedabad city has led to problems of water logging and flooding during the monsoons.
Intregrated control and command centre for water distribution system and drainage is situated in Paldi. Water come from 80% Narmada Canal, 10% sabarmati River, 10% Sethi Canal.
SEWERAGE NETWORK
BHILWAS PUMPING STATION, HANSOL Since 2000 Pumping Capacity : 900 m /hr. (2working +1 Standby) Water Source : Kotapur WTP ESR Capacity : 1.2 Lakh Gallon GSR Capacity : 4 lakh Gallon Total Storage Capacity: 5.2 Lakh Gallon Supply Timing: 6:00 am - 0.5hr 9:00 am - 0.5hr 5:00 pm - 1.0 hr Owned by AMC
STORM WATER NETWORK
WHAT LIES BENEATH?
WATER SUPPLY
In Ahmedabad organized piped water supply starts in year of 1891 by Dudheshwar water tank constructed on eastern riverbank of Sabarmati River.Due to nonavailability of Regular water after late 50’ in the Sabarmati River the precinct started depending on the ground water sources.Due to the decreasing in ground water table AMC took the action and created bilwas pump station and started taking surface water from narmada canal to fulfill the demands of watersupply of the population int the city.
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HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY
126883.33
14
Median
12
(Avg. household income)
NO. OF SAMPLES
10
EATING HABIT
8 6
Vegetarian
4
Non-Vegetarian
2 0 0-5000
10001-2000020001-3000020001-3000130001-50000 INCOME GROUP
50001-1 Lakhs
Above 1 Lakhs
14 12
NO. OF SAMPLES
5. ECONOMY & LIVELIHOOD
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
10 Slums
8
Semi- detached
6
Row houses/ Attached (others)
4
Detached bungalows
2
Apartment
0
INCOME GROUP
HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE
Livelihood has witnessed a varity of challenges on the basic of income, household size and socio- economic character. Based on the house hold survey it was analysed that row houses have joint family where as apartments and detached bungolows have nuclear family. The pattern of range of income groups indicates overall value with the no. of population residing in the precinct. A household with typical income chooses to reside in a typical housing typology due to various reasons like affordability, social networks, lifestyle etc. The predominant income group in the precinct according to survey is ranges between Rs. 50,000 to 1Lakhs. The second predominant income range is 20000 to 30000. The graph shows that the higher income group are the highest residents. The area is evolved 73 years ago and have dominance of middle-income group. Lower income groups prefer staying in mass housing like apartments and row houses. The highest income groups prefer staying in semi detached or detached bungalows with more carpet area.High-income population is seen in apartments which are newly developed with more carpet area and all the amenities. There is NO any specific housing typology for specific income group. According to the 30 samples In hansol, most of the population living has income above the median which means the people living in hansol area are belongs to the LIG & MIG GROUP. LIG spend 65% odf there income on their basic needs where as rich household spend only 35% of it on basic necessitity. Lastly, the type of housing choice depends on income. row houses are belong to LIG and apartments and bunglows bbelongs to MIG And HIG income group to live. Hence, all these argument clearly portray that the society in Hansol is Livable.
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JOBS AND LIVELIHOOD 9.91%
13.33%
2.25%
0.28% 0.43% 0.57% 0.28%
MALE
0.23% 0.13% 0.11%
FEMAILE
74.51%
Job center vise distribution of nature of jobs 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% Self Employed
50%
Regular
40%
Contract
30%
Casual
20% 10% 0%
COMMERCIAL INDISTRIAL INSTITUTION RESIDENTIAL
VENDER
VENDER
JOB CENTERS
From the above graph it is clearly seen that men tends to work high number of hours compared to females in the precinct. This is because most of the jobs was taken by the women are casual and do not have fix working hours. Literacy also has its impact on job . Illiteracy work more casual jobs are old and self employed like small scale industry in the precinct . 95% of the regular jobs are taken up by the literates because of job requirement certain skills acquired through education.
It was observed that many individuals between 15-20 years of age tend to work as casual helpers in vending stalls. 80% shops owners belong to >60 years of age group have shops leading to high self-employed percentage in that category.
78% of the household provides regularly job of domestic help leading to the high percentage of regular job in the precinct in residential categories. Industry engages on many daily wages casual labors for working in textile, vendors also involve casual helpers on contract hence have both self employed .
The residential have high job density because the worker travel from the slums which is comparatively low job density. Arrow shows the people live in the slums works as domestic helpers in residential areas o the precinct Job Density in Ha 6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
HANSOL
SADARNAGAR
The predominant is residential the people live in the precinct but work in near by area of the precinct so, the job density in the precinct is less than the other areas. People who have higher income and a regular job travel large distance from the precinct to the Central Business District. Where the job density is much higher than the precinct in Hansol.
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0
Residential
Commercial
Institutional
Vending
Established jobs centers like institutional buildings provide large no of jobs per area in comparison to Residential areas. Vending have high job density with 1.8 sq. m average space required per job
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6. PUBLIC REALM
6.1 NOLLI'S MAP - PUBLIC REALM
6.3 SINDH AMBAVADI CHOWK, HANSOL
6.2 PUBLIC PLACES IN HANSOL
ELEMENTS OF PUBLIC REALM
Public realm refers to the public space for interaction accessible freely for everyone. in the context of hansol it has limited option of public spaces. Graden has time limitation to access them and those places are shown with grey color in Nolli’s map.
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6.3 SECTIONS
Due to the internal streets Hansol cannot utilize the public spaces. Hence Sindhi Ambavadi Chowk became vibrant public space as compared to all other parts of precinct having direct access through sadar patel road this junction forms the market activities, mix use typology commercial along the road and residential behind. in G+1 ground floor is shop and first floor is dweling unit and informal markets having vending on streets and foothpaths. There are many varity of goods selling on these streets. The junction has gathering point at bus stop (AMTS) hence have became pickup and drop points for rickshaws. At some places the edge of junction is been utilise in the parking.
6.4 ACTIVITIES AT DIFFERENT TIME OF DAY
MORNING ACTIVITY MAPPING
AFTERNOON ACTIVITY MAPPING
Public space in Hansol is accessible and sociable space with variety of activities with safer environment which make it Livable.......
EVENING ACTIVITY MAPPING
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7. GOVERNANCE
EXISTING GOVERNANCE SERVICES IN HANSOL Existing services available in the area
1
Public Toilets
2
Footpaths, Street lights and traffic islands
3
Gardens and Parks or public open space
4
Garbage Management Infrastructure
5 silver bins 4Green bins
5
Urban Health Centre
1
6
Library, Gym, Reading halls, Community halls, swimming pool, etc
1
7
Bus Stops of AMTS /BRTS
4 AMTS bus stops
8
Parking Plots/Parking facilities
1 parking plot of 100 cars
9
EWS housing (under any scheme)
1
10
Heritage structure
2 public toilets
HEALTH FACILITIES IN AHMEDABAD
Sardar Nagar Urban Health Centre Sardar Nagar Police Station Sadhu Vasvani Police Station, near ward office
URBAN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE
URBAN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE CENTRE, HANSOL
Key Responsibility provide comprehensive preventive, promotive and nondomiciliary curative care Services: Thus services provided by U-PHC would include OPD (consultation), basic lab diagnosis, drug /contraceptive dispensing and delivery of Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) services, as well as preventive and promotive aspects of all communicable and no communicable diseases. The UPHC shall also provide free and easy access to drugs and diagnostics. This includes drugs prescribed by specialists elsewhere especially with regard to non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Provision will have to be made for services like Anti-Rabies Vaccination, which are important in the urban scenario.
ORGANISATION INVOLVE IN FUNDING UPHC
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Limitations The UPHC will not admit patients for in-patient care. The UPHC will also provide services of counseling and have a help desk for assisting patients with special needs
LOCATION AND AREA COVERED BY UPHC
M 8K
HOW UPHC WORKS? •
Family Planning Services
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Services to Pregnant Ladies
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Vitamin tablets to mother and child
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Vitamin A to children for healthy vision
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Treatment to children for diseases like fever, cough, diarrheavomiting, pneumonia
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Vaccination and General well being camps in slums
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Providing benefits Government schemes
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Promised Services
State
Arogya Bhawan
Urban Primary Health Centre
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AMC plans to build more UHCs in the city in the coming years to cater to this demand for good health services.
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AMC wishes to improve and strengthen the existing health care system through targeted interventions and programs
MBBS, MD
MIG
Slums
LIG
People
Doctor
Annual Report
Structure
Cantonment
ANMS
MPHW
Field Workers
Angan Wadi’s
Sub station
Health Dept. AMC
Arogya Bhawan
Offices
Stake Holders
How UHC services working in Ahmedabad?
AMINITIES IN UPHC
IMA
Central Govt.
NUHM
Gujarat State Govt.
Hence, with the urban primary healthcare centre and other governance services which make the precinct -hansol livable for the population in that region. AMC
IMA
STAFF AND THERE SALARY STRUCTURE UHC
Services Distribution
Finally, having the UPHC in Hansol conclude that gross national health is important than gross domestic product. To make neighbourhood Livable.....
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8. CONCLUSION
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” “To seek “causes” of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.” -Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities In the past two decades there have been dramatic changes in the fortunes of cities and regions. There is a growing realization that cities are cultural and economic turn through emphasis on meaning and identity of social being. At the same time understanding that cities can be liveable only when the neighbourhoods are safe and interactive in nature. The neighbourhoods are smaller units of bigger cities. Hence, in order to understand a city, it is important to understand how the neighbourhood function and how they perform. An urban analysis to allow neighbourhood to be viewed from “liveability” perspective through the lens of Social aspects, Economic aspects, Habitat, Urban mobility & Infrastructure. The concept embraces cognate notions such as quality of life, character of the place, social and cultural expression. The idea of liveability bridges many of the other concepts. It refers to the extent to which the attributes of a particular place can, as they interact with one another and with activities in other places, satisfy residents by meeting their economic, social, and cultural needs, promoting their health and well-being. Some social challenges like mode of vehicles prefered for travellingdoesnot depend only on income and distance but on gender also has an impact. The nature of job influenced by the gender as well the dependency ratio in household for low income group was less because to sustain their livelihood most of the family members work. However in high income group the dependency ratio is higher as only one individual is able to sustain the family livelihood which seem to be livable. Lastly, it can be concluded that the north eastern of Ahmedabad (Hansol) has Livable condition for the living population at the microlevelof one square kilometer.
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