Rajkot Smart City Masterplan Under
Smart Cities Mission, Govt. of India

Out of the 100 Smart Cities planned across India, Rajkot was one of the very few offering an abutting green-field area, an expansive 930 acres, to be developed as Rajkot Smart City. The exercise that yielded some rewarding results with interesting insights, began with identifying some existing assets like waterbodies and earmarked public land for utilities which ended up being utilizing anchors around which the entire scheme fascinatingly revolves. Identified waterbodies have been interlinked using water channels flowing along the site’s natural watershed. Greens belts, accounting for 29% of the land area, are laid out on either sides to create a continuous pedestrian walkway with an integrated NMT route throughout the city. After establishing an efficient 21 kms of road network around blocks desirably small sized to offer an easy pedestrian access across them, each block gets identified by a public utility it holds revealing 5 distinct districts covering the city – institutional, recreational, sports, convention, mixed use and central. This poly-centered denouement around fixed anchor points, tied up by well networked water channels, greenbelts and roads, is then aligned to the TP Scheme plans prepared by RSCDL/ RMC to arrive at the final detailed masterplan.