If your house or residential colony was in a gram panchayat about two decades ago and now is within municipal limits, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will deduct 40% of your total plot area for civic services if you plan redevelopment. 

On May 30, the committee on Town Planning (TP) of the AMC had placed a proposal for the inclusion of the 40% deduction rule for properties of TP number 74 Chandkheda-Zundal. The amendment will have to be passed by the standing committee and the general board of the AMC. The total area of the TP scheme is 2.38 lakh square metres. "If the AMC makes the amendment for the Chandkheda-Zundal TP scheme, it will become a precedent for the rest of the draft TP schemes located on the periphery of the city which were earlier in gram panchayats," said a senior AMC official. 

The same rule will apply to new areas that may be incorporated within AMC limits, including Bopal, over the next few months. "When the area fell under the gram panchayat, the deduction for civic services was just 20% because of which projects such as road expansion became challenging," said an official of the AMC’s town planning department. "The new rule will at least allow us to demand more space."

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