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Rain water will be collected in 1230 buildings of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Ahmedabad, 3 December 2025
In 1965 there were 1400 lakes in 1057 square km. After 1985, there was corruption during the BJP rule and now bores and wells are being built again.
A water harvesting system will be installed to collect rain water that floods all the properties of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. In the meeting of the Water Supply Committee on 17 November 2025, all the 1230 properties of the Municipal Corporation worth Rs. Rs 23 crore 63 lakh will be spent. The responsibility of operation and maintenance has been given to a private company.
Rain water harvesting system will be installed on the roof of the buildings.
It is claimed that water can be saved by storing rainwater on the rooftops of zonal offices, ward offices, hospitals, municipal schools, urban health centres, library water distribution stations, drainage pumping stations and various other buildings. But such a plan has not been successful before.
garden
In 2025, seepage wells were constructed in the gardens and walkways for rainwater drainage in the gardens. 4 percolation wells were constructed in Vastrapur Lake.
sponge park
It was announced to build a sponge park to collect rain water in 2025. A park was to be built in Bodakdev of Vejalpur. The sponge park was to be built in an area that was flooded with rain water. New Ranip Rs. Sponge park was built with Rs 4.42 crores.
1 thousand buildings
In 2025, arrangements were made to collect rain water on 1 thousand 800 buildings owned by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Rs 400 in the building premises. Roof top rain water harvesting system was installed at a cost of Rs 5 crore 50 lakh. There were regional offices, ward-offices, hospitals, schools, urban health centres.
expense
It was decided to build 50 percolating wells in the monsoon of 2025 at a cost of more than Rs 10 crore.
The cost of construction of a borewell is Rs. 10 lakh to 14 lakh.
40 thousand settlements
120 meters will be constructed in 40,000 societies in 2024 with the aim of quick disposal of rain water and increasing ground water level. A deep seepage well was planned.
A 70:20:10 scheme for filling water in wells was announced by the state government.
Even the councilors have not incurred any expenditure from the budget of the housing societies.
Work was given to 8 agencies.
well arched
Funds were raised to collect rain water and increase ground water through ‘Khambhati Kuva’ in 2024.
Construction of 6 pillar wells up to 30 feet deep in 2025 and laying a separate network of rain water lines from the surrounding area to filter water through them will cost approximately Rs. Rs 1 crore 87 lakh was allocated. In which two pillar wells were to be arranged in Viratnagar and three in Odhav.
government finance
In the 2024-25 budget, the Gujarat government allocated Rs 144.32 crore to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation for rain water harvesting works. The government bears 70 percent of the total cost.
This money was given for 7497 works of rain water harvesting in three zones North West, South West and West. On 70:20:10 PPP basis, 3180 in North West region, 1617 in South West region and 2500 in West region, a total of 7497 societies applied for rain water harvesting works by private societies.
failed
By 2024, no one knows the whereabouts of the 80 leaking wells constructed by Ampa and Auda. Are finished. Leaky wells in gardens are useless or buried. Still new ones are being made.
Storage chambers, pipelines etc. are not cleaned. As per rules, wells are not checked. A bore of 400 feet is required. The arched wells, 40 feet deep and 3 meters in diameter, also provide sanitation facilities and pump millions of liters of water underground.
The groundwater level is becoming deeper.
a failed plan
Considering Gujarat’s failed water harvesting as a model, Water Minister CR Patil announced to implement it all over India. It has recharge well, check dam. The plan was to conserve rainwater through harvesting, borewell recharge and recharge shafts. In which necessary help will be taken from government and non-government resources like CSR funds, industrial houses, civil organizations and people working in the water sector. It was decided to build 10 lakh such structures in India. JSJB was started in Surat.
Five recharge sites in each village and each municipal corporation was asked to set up at least 10,000 recharge structures in its jurisdiction.
80,000 rainwater harvesting tanks were to be built across the state.
8 areas of water
In 2023, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation launched an underground water storage scheme at a cost of Rs 1 crore for quick disposal of rain water and preventing overflow of sewage in Ahmedabad city.
8 water filling places were identified. In which percolating will be made at places including Mahila Garden behind Rajpath Club, Aampana Plot near Anandnagar, in front of Ambawadi Kalyan Jewellers, Kathwada Madumalati Awas, Everest Cinema Char Rasta in Saraspur, Pritampura MS Apartment, Lambha Gujarati School. All these seepage waters had the capacity to release 12000 to 15000 liters of water underground per hour.
In later years it was flooded.
Rs 13.34 lakh was fixed for the percolating well by the Field Master Engineer. Company.
school
State’s first water recharge scheme by collecting rain water in 9 government schools in 2022
Nantani School was built. 100 societies gathered in this
Education level had to be raised. For the first time in Gujarat, a water recharge plant in a school in Ahmedabad was built in a municipal corporation-run school in Paldi.
A percolation well was constructed by Gujarat University for rain water harvesting.
the plan failed
in 2022 2022
An 80-20 plan was made but only 14 committees showed interest in constructing leaky wells.
Municipal Commissioner Lochan Sehra announced the plan for the residential society in a circular on 9 June 2020.
The plan failed because the rule was that fifty percent of the members would have to pay property tax.
1000 settlements
In 2021, leaky wells were constructed in 1000 societies in Ahmedabad this year. It cost Rs 2.60 lakh.
underground ditches
There are 1500 underground water wells in the pits.
After testing the water samples taken by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, the tanka water proved to be potable.
In the early 19th century, Rao Bahadur Ranchodlal Chhotalal provided water and sewage lines to people’s homes in the Kot area of Ahmedabad.
People also kept underground tanks to store water inside their houses. The underground seams of the Polo houses were surveyed by the Heritage Cell of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. 1500 underground stairs were found surviving in 10 thousand houses.
In 2024 these stitches were only 800.
After seeing this result, a plan was made to save 25 thousand liters and 25 lakh liters of water in one tank.
An underground water tank was found in the temple of Sarangpur Daulatkhana.
Every year, rain water is stored in an underground tank according to the constellations in the Vishwakarma temple located near Daulatkhana in Sarangpur. This water is also being used in worshiping God and cooking food.
Lakes disappear – satellite report
In 1965, Ahmedabad had 1057 sq.km. There were lakes that disappeared. There is evidence that Ahmedabad once had more than 1400 lakes. Due to the destruction, small and big lakes, ponds or ponds were filled with water.
A study was conducted using Landsat satellite images of the US from 1974 to 2017. In which along with the map it was found that 1057 square km. The area of lakes disappeared from the area around Ahmedabad in about forty years.
in 5 years
From 2009 to 2015, the ponds were systematically filled. Out of 630 lakes, 122 lakes survived in 5 years. Sewage is discharged into many lakes. 122 big lakes around ten km. Garbage was dumped in the area. In Auda region, 52 lakes disappeared within a few years. Thousands of lakes in rural areas of Ahmedabad are now being filled.
lake area
Talavadi bus stand was near Athira. Lakhuri Talawadi was near Sardar Patel Stadium. Three lakes were observed from Bhopal area and were closed. There was a lake in Jodhpur village. Asha Parekh Lake was near the University Staff Quarters. A lake disappeared in Vejalpur. Two lakes disappeared from Kali village. There was a lake near the Piranha Dump side. Buildings, gardens, temples, government houses were constructed. Before Lal Bahadur Stadium there was a lake. A stadium has been built in it and a lake has been created.
lakes not connected
Under the National Lake Conservation Scheme, the plan to connect 45 lakes of different areas of Ahmedabad city with each other through interlink system has not been completed yet.
Various items including before and after mapping of 156 lakes of Ahmedabad city, strengthened water and infrastructure, water storage were included under Gujarat Water Policy.
In which Rs 180 crores were spent in 5 years.
Rs 100 crore more were to be spent in 2025-26.
There are 156 lakes under government offices in Ahmedabad city. 143 lakes belong to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
Inside the lake, instead of monsoon water, there was sewer line water instead of rain water. It was green, smelly, dirty.
45 crores in 2021-22,
10 crore in 2022-23,
51.5 crore in 2023-24,
An expenditure of Rs 73.1 crore was fixed in 2024-25.
Pancha Lake
Crores were spent on five ponds in Prahlad Nagar, the most prosperous area. Still there was sewage.
Vastral Lake
Rs 20 crore was spent on Vastral Lake from 2017 to 2021. The water was contaminated, smelly, sewage. The STP plant was useless.
Mahakali Lake
Mahakali Lake, located near ISKCON Char Road, is also known as Auda Mahila Garden. Sewage is also filled and emptied using heavy dewatering machines. Crores spent on interlinking but filled with sewage.
Chandlodiya Lake
Chandlodiya lake has sewage, mosquitoes, greenery. A special committee is formed to protect the lake but it never meets. It rains a lot here but there is no natural rain water inside the lake. There is sewage water there.
pond is not water
The quality of groundwater in Ahmedabad city was checked by Gujarat Pollution Control Board in the year 2028-19 and it was not potable. The salinity of the borewell water at Piplaj was 2096 and pH 8.20. Ground water is not potable in most areas.
no enforcement of rules
The state government has made special provision in the GDCR for rain water harvesting. 100 to 300 square meter area had to be filled with water.
In 2002, Auda made it mandatory for buildings up to 1500 square meters to have seepage wells.
In 2013-14, a circular was issued to obtain permission to use the building for the construction of a percolating well.
The seepage wells built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation a few years ago to store water in some gardens of the city are also suitable.
Were tired without care.
water storage policy
In 2022, inspection of leaking wells for rainwater harvesting in Ahmedabad was ordered. 80:20 assistance scheme for construction of leaky wells in private properties. So that Narmada water can be saved by paying less.
mandatory
To collect rain water every 4000 square meter in the city and increase ground water. Construction of a percolating well is mandatory in new developing schemes in the area. This leaking well was to be inspected by the Municipal Corporation’s Estate and Water Department during monsoon.
no deposit
In 2023, as per the provisions of CGDCR-2017, it was decided to collect the percolation well deposit before allowing the building to be used by the applicant for permanent cleaning of 52 percolation wells.
40 per square meter of construction and Rs. Rs 60 per square meter for construction for non-residential purpose as rain water harvesting deposit. Apart from this, plantation fee of Rs 3000 per tree was to be charged for residential construction and Rs 5000 for non-residential construction.
The deposit will be refunded if the tree is properly maintained after five years.
Rs 75 thousand had to be deposited per percolation well.
