Ahmedabad: After identifying thousands of unsafe private buildings over the past two years, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has now turned its focus to its own ageing housing stock, with plans to redevelop more than 10,600 dilapidated residential units across the city.A pre-monsoon structural survey of AMC-owned residential buildings, including schemes for housing urban poor, staff quarters, slum quarters and health quarters, found 10,632 units spread across 445 blocks in 42 residential buildings to be unsafe. The civic body initiated redevelopment of all these buildings.The redevelopment process has already begun for 7,986 units across 266 blocks in 24 buildings, with tenders floated for the projects. For another 2,511 units in 169 blocks across 14 buildings, the AMC is awaiting the mandatory consent of at least 60% of residents before redevelopment can proceed. So far, 135 units across 10 blocks in four buildings have been evacuated.The survey found the highest concentration of unsafe AMC housing in the South Zone, where 3,616 units in 15 buildings were declared dangerous, followed by the Central Zone with 2,587 units in 15 buildings.The exercise follows the AMC’s annual pre-monsoon drive to identify hazardous private buildings. Before the 2025 monsoon, the civic body declared 5,643 units in 390 privately owned buildings as dangerous. Over 2024 and 2025, a total of 14,907 units across 1,151 private buildings were classified as unsafe.The urgency of the redevelopment drive comes against the backdrop of several building collapses during recent monsoons, including incidents at Surya Sagar Apartments in Jodhpur, Rupal Park Society in Bodakdev in 2025, and the partial collapse of Pooja Apartments in Navrangpura at the start of the 2026 monsoon.
