The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has launched a major redevelopment initiative for more than 10,600 unsafe residential units after a structural assessment identified significant deterioration in several civic body-owned housing complexes. The move is part of the corporation’s ongoing efforts to improve housing safety and reduce the risk posed by ageing buildings, particularly during the monsoon season.
A pre-monsoon structural survey of AMC-owned residential buildings found 10,632 housing units spread across 445 blocks in 42 residential buildings to be structurally unsafe. These include housing schemes for the urban poor, staff quarters, slum rehabilitation housing, and health department quarters. Based on the survey findings, the civic body has initiated plans to redevelop all the identified buildings.
Redevelopment work has already commenced for 7,986 housing units across 266 blocks in 24 buildings, with tenders issued for the projects. For another 2,511 units spread across 169 blocks in 14 buildings, the redevelopment process is awaiting the mandatory consent of at least 60% of residents before work can begin. Meanwhile, residents from 135 units located in four buildings have already been evacuated as a safety precaution.
The survey revealed that the South Zone has the highest number of unsafe civic housing units, accounting for 3,616 units across 15 buildings. The Central Zone follows with 2,587 unsafe units in another 15 buildings, indicating that some of the city’s oldest residential stock requires urgent intervention.
The redevelopment programme follows AMC’s annual structural inspections of private buildings. Before the 2025 monsoon, the corporation declared 5,643 units in 390 privately owned buildings as unsafe. Over the past two years, a total of 14,907 units across 1,151 private buildings have been identified as structurally unsafe.
The urgency of the redevelopment drive has increased following several building collapse incidents reported during recent monsoon seasons, including Surya Sagar Apartments in Jodhpur, Rupal Park Society in Bodakdev in 2025, and the partial collapse of Pooja Apartments in Navrangpura at the beginning of the 2026 monsoon.
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