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International Pharma Business Meet & Exhibition 2015
YMCA International Centre,
Sarkhej Gandhinagar Road,
S.G. Highway, Makarba,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015 |
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Ahmedabad is located in the northern part of Gujarat, towards the western region of the country. The city is situated on the banks of the river Sabarmati spanning over an area of 190.84 sq. km. Its longitude and latitude are 720º 41' E and 230º 1' N respectively and rises to an average height of 50 m above the sea level. It is the seventh urban conglomeration of India with a population of 4,519,278 persons according to 2001 census.
The river Sabarmati divides Ahmedabad into two physically distinct eastern and western regions. The eastern bank of the river constitutes the old city, which includes the central town of Bhadra. It is packed with bazaars, the clustered and barricaded pole system of shanty buildings with numerous places of worship. Some landmark establishments like railway station, the General Post Office and buildings of the Muzaffarid and British eras are present in this part of the city.
The western side of Sabarmati is assisted by the construction of Ellis Bridge in 1875 and later with the modern Nehru Bridge. This part of the city houses educational institutions, modern buildings, well-planned residential areas, shopping malls, multiplexes and new business districts centred on C. G. Road, Ashram Road, and more recently, the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway.
Ahmedabad falls under seismic zone-III (a zone having low damage risk), in a scale of I to V (in order of increasing proneness to earthquakes) while the wind and cyclone zoning is "very high damage risk", according to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report. The industrial wastes from the textile industries are a major concern for the civic administration department. |
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