Plot sale fiasco: AUDA sells land meant for service road October 15, 2025

Ahmedabad: The officials of the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) are facing embarrassment over mismanaged land deals. It has come to light that AUDA sold a land plot in Chandkheda, but officials realized only a year later that the sale had inadvertently included land earmarked for a service road.

In a case that has raised eyebrows, 21,685 sq m of prime land adjoining SP Ring Road in Chandkheda was auctioned to a developer for Rs 166 crore. Nearly a year later, officials in the estate department discovered that the town planning department had reserved part of the land for a 9-meter-wide service road, which had been mistakenly included in the sale.

In the wake of this realization, officials during a boa

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