Amit Shah Opens Rs 1,400 Crore Ahmedabad Projects

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah inaugurated, and laid the foundation stone for, development works costing roughly Rs 1,400 crore in Ahmedabad on 9 November 2026. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was present. Of the total, works of about Rs 1,024 crore belong to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), while works of nearly Rs 400 crore have been taken up through the Roads and Buildings Department of the Gujarat Government together with the Government of India.

What was inaugurated or begun

• The Jalasapur Water Treatment Plant was dedicated to the public.
• Work started on a four-kilometre ISKCON overbridge. The journey from Sarkhej to Gandhinagar, which once took two and a half hours, is to become a signal-free drive once the bridge is ready in three years.
• The foundation stone was laid for a pump house to drain rainwater out of the Bopal-Ghuma area, with a promise that the locality will be free of waterlogging before 2029.
• Two primary schools were opened. Every primary school of the area has been turned into a smart school by the AMC.

Housing at Ramapir No Tekro

Residents of Ramapir No Tekro, a slum settlement in the city, are being shifted into built flats under a scheme begun in 2007 to replace huts with permanent houses. Once the whole plan is on the ground, more than 55,000 people are to get social security, recreation, education and health facilities inside a single complex. The wider scheme covers close to one lakh slum dwellers of Ahmedabad. The Home Minister said works worth Rs 25,000 crore have been finished in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency over the past seven years, and repeated the goal of a "Green Gandhinagar, Developed Gandhinagar".

Target of a drug-free India

After the goal of a Naxal-free India, the Minister said, the next target is a drug-free India by 31 December 2029, and he asked Gujarat to get there a year earlier, before 31 December 2028. Information about the sale or use of drugs can be given on the helpline 1033, and the informant's name will be kept secret. A control room is to start working from 1 December, built to act within three hours of a tip-off. De-addiction centres are being opened for affected youth, whose identity will also not be made public. He also greeted the people of Gujarat on Diwali and the Gujarati New Year, Bestu Varas.