Minutes of the 19th meeting - Archaeological Survey of India

10. Kankari
a Lake
Front
Develop
ment
Project,
Ahmeda
bad &
The
City
Enginee
r,
Ahmeda
bad
Municip
al
Corpor
ation,
Ahmeda
bad
Inlet to
Kankar
ia
Tank,
Ahmed
abad
Prohibit
ed and
regulate
d area
a) &
b)
0.00
m to
276.
00 m
1) 3 nos. Toilets
2) Balwatika
Plaza
3) Food Court
4) Larri Cluster
5) Plaza
6) Train Track
Proposed
construction site
surrounded by
Kankaria tank,
Ahmedabad
11
- Kankaria
Lake Front
Developme
nt Project
proposed
reconstruction of
residential
building falls
within the
prohibited area at
a distance of
60.00 m from the
protection limits
of the monument.
SA has forwarded
the application to
the DG, ASI on
15.12.2008.
applicant to reconstruct
the building upto the
maximum height of
3.60 m.
SA, Vadodara Circle
gave a power-point
presentation on the
Project and informed
the Committee that the
road around the lake is
now being used for
running the toy-train
and the vehicular traffic
on the road has been
totally abandoned. He
informed that only inlet
channel with an arched
bridge, which is
protected by the ASI, is
the monument affected
because of the Project.
The Committee
observed that on perusal
of the photographs and
drawings presented, it
seems the proposal is in
the interest of the
monument. It was,