Gujarat International Finance Tech City - Gift

Gujarat International Finance Tech City is located on banks of Sabarmati River and is around 12KM from  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
It is  India's first operational smart city and international financial services centre.
GIFT City is promoted as Greenfield project by the Gujarat government and the city  is designed for walk to work concept and includes commercial and residential complexes.
The idea for GIFT was proposed during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2007 and the initial planning was done by East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), well known for the planning of modern day city Shangai.
 The GIFT City’s plan is for the 359 hectares (886 acres) of land area to have approximately 110 buildings with 5,800,000 m2 of built-up area, of which around 67% is commercial, 22% is for residential and 11% is social facilities.
Currently 190,000 m2 of commercial space is operational, and another 280,000 m2 is under development.
The city has an integrated development model which has been spread out in three phases.
Each phase is designed as integrted sustainable development.
Currently approximately 225 units are operational with more than 12000 professionals employed in the City.

1. GIFT City

2. GIFT City Gujarat International Finance Tech City is located on banks of Sabarmati River and is around 12KM from   Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. It is  India's first operational smart city and international financial services centre . GIFT City is promoted as Greenfield project by the Gujarat government and the city  is designed for walk to work concept and includes commercial and residential complexes.

3. Idea And Planning  The idea for GIFT was proposed during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2007 and the initial planning was done by East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), well known for the planning of modern day city Shangai .  The GIFT City’s plan is for the 359 hectares (886 acres) of land area to have approximately 110 buildings with 5,800,000 m 2 of built-up area, of which around 67% is commercial, 22% is for residential and 11% is social facilities. Currently 190,000 m 2  of commercial space is operational, and another 280,000 m 2 is under development. The city has an integrated development model which has been spread out in three phases. Each phase is designed as integrted sustainable development. Currently approximately 225 units are operational with more than 12000 professionals employed in the City.

4. Amenities  Electricity  400 MW electricity supply is planned to be 99.999% reliable. The electric cables are laid in dry protected area Telecom services offers 99.99 % uptime of Telecom Services. C oncept of FTTX ( Fibre to the home / office ) is used for telecom services in GIFT city. Intelligent city The Intelligent Building Management System guidelines issued by GIFT City to all developers ensures that building level services are at par with international standards. Piped Gas Natural gas is distributed to every house and building via pipes, which is cheaper and safer than cylinders. Air conditioning India's first city-level DCS (district cooling system) is operational at GIFT City. Solid waste management All waste in the city are collected and taken to processing plant by vacuum chutes installed at every floor of all buildings. The waste is automatically sucked through underground chutes at a high speed of 90 km/h  and is being treated through various methods including plasma gasification.

5. Potential For Gift City Location and connectivity. Urban planning High quality infrastructure. Business friendly regulations Avilability of talented pool

6. Location And Connectivity Connectivity: 12 km from internatinoal airport. Abuts NH 8. 8KM from Gandhinagar. Strong interconnectivity. And integrated townships around the city.

7. Urban Planning Includes transit oriented development. Soft and hard landscaping. Development along Sabarmathi river. Designed for 0.4mn working population and includes 50000 residents.

8. Urban Planning: Land use pattern

9. High quality Infrastructure Completely developed site with high quality internal roads and storm water drianage. Piped natural gas network connection. Environmental protection measures and acess to e-waste management methods. Underground arterial roads,more parking space and MRTS/LRTS/BRTS transport facilities. Lowest per capita energy consumption.

10. Infrastructure Infrastructure of GIFT includes intelligent buildings, totally connected broadband and wireless networks, IT data centers and e Governance. Local area networking ,wireless access to networks and video telephony e.t.c. The core infrastructure inclu0des Site development Landscaping Building maintenance.     Water management HVAC Domestic gas distribution  Power generation and distribution.

11. Business friendly regulation

12. Phases of GIFT City There are 3 phases of construction of the city. Each phase has a different timeline of construction and different builtup area of the construction and the highest builtup area construction is done in 3rd phase that is 27.3mn sq.ft .

13. Currrent status of Gift city GIFT City has already allotted development rights of around 11 Million sq feet. A world class Corporate Club named 'GIFT Club' is operational. Public infrastructure in GIFT CITY is based on concept of 'Predictive Maintenance'.  there are two International Stock Exchanges named 'Indian International' & 'NSE International' are operational A five star Hotel 'Grand Mercure' by one of the worlds biggest hotel chain ' Accor Hospitality' is operational in GIFT City with 95 rooms. Phase 1 of development has been completed in the year 2017. Second phase of development is under progress.

14. Current status  There is an International Bullion Exchange planned in GIFT City in near future. The World Trade Center -GIFT City, is final phase of completion for financial and allied services.  The centre will connect businesses around 343 locations worldwide. GIFT City's first housing project of affordable housing ' Janmangala ' was inaugurated in the year 2017.The project has around 300 dwellings.  This project provides affordable housing for the people of LIG AND MIG segment of society working in GIFT City.

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