GIFT City, located in Gujarat, India, is the country's first operational smart city and international financial services center, designed for a walk-to-work concept. Proposed during the 2007 Vibrant Gujarat Summit, it spans 359 hectares with plans for mixed-use development, providing infrastructure including reliable electricity, telecom services, and waste management. Currently, GIFT City has operational commercial spaces, an international stock exchange, and affordable housing initiatives, with its development divided into three phases.

1. GIFT City

2. GIFT City
• Gujarat International Finance Tech City is located on banks of
Sabarmati River and is around 12KM from Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel International Airport.
• It is India's first operational smart city and international financial
services centre.
• GIFT City is promoted as Greenfield project by the Gujarat
government and the city is designed for walk to work concept
and includes commercial and residential complexes.

3. Idea And Planning
• The idea for GIFT was proposed during the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investor Summit 2007 and the
initial planning was done by East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI), well known
for the planning of modern day city Shangai.
• The GIFT City’s plan is for the 359 hectares (886 acres) of land area to have approximately 110
buildings with 5,800,000 m2 of built-up area, of which around 67% is commercial, 22% is for residential
and 11% is social facilities.
• Currently 190,000 m2 of commercial space is operational, and another 280,000 m2 is under
development.
• The city has an integrated development model which has been spread out in three phases.
• Each phase is designed as integrted sustainable development.
• Currently approximately 225 units are operational with more than 12000 professionals employed in the
City.

4. Amenities
Electricity 400 MW electricity supply is planned to be 99.999% reliable. The electric
cables are laid in dry protected area
Telecom services offers 99.99 % uptime of Telecom Services. Concept of FTTX ( Fibre to the
home / office ) is used for telecom services in GIFT city.
Intelligent city The Intelligent Building Management System guidelines issued by GIFT City
to all developers ensures that building level services are at par with
international standards.
Piped Gas Natural gas is distributed to every house and building via pipes, which is
cheaper and safer than cylinders.
Air conditioning India's first city-level DCS (district cooling system) is operational at GIFT City.
Solid waste management All waste in the city are collected and taken to processing plant by vacuum
chutes installed at every floor of all buildings. The waste is automatically
sucked through underground chutes at a high speed of 90 km/h and is being
treated through various methods including plasma gasification.

5. Potential For Gift City
• Location and connectivity.
• Urban planning
• High quality infrastructure.
• Business friendly regulations
• Avilability of talented pool

6. Location And
Connectivity
Connectivity:
• 12 km from internatinoal airport.
• Abuts NH 8.
• 8KM from Gandhinagar.
• Strong interconnectivity.
• And integrated townships around the
city.

7. Urban Planning
• Includes transit oriented development.
• Soft and hard landscaping.
• Development along Sabarmathi river.
• Designed for 0.4mn working population
and includes 50000 residents.

8. Urban Planning:
Land use pattern

9. High quality Infrastructure
• Completely developed site with high quality internal roads and
storm water drianage.
• Piped natural gas network connection.
• Environmental protection measures and acess to e-waste
management methods.
• Underground arterial roads,more parking space and
MRTS/LRTS/BRTS transport facilities.
• Lowest per capita energy consumption.

10. Infrastructure
• Infrastructure of GIFT includes intelligent buildings, totally
connected broadband and wireless networks, IT data centers and e
Governance.
• Local area networking ,wireless access to networks and video
telephony e.t.c.
• The core infrastructure inclu0des
1. Site development
2. Landscaping
3. Building maintenance.
4. Water management
5. HVAC
6. Domestic gas distribution
7. Power generation and distribution.

11. Business friendly regulation

12. Phases of GIFT
City
• There are 3 phases of
construction of the city.
• Each phase has a different
timeline of construction and
different builtup area of the
construction and the highest
builtup area construction is
done in 3rd phase that
is 27.3mn sq.ft.

13. Currrent status of Gift city
• GIFT City has already allotted development rights of around 11 Million sq feet.
• A world class Corporate Club named 'GIFT Club' is operational.
• Public infrastructure in GIFT CITY is based on concept of 'Predictive Maintenance'.
• there are two International Stock Exchanges named 'Indian International' & 'NSE
International' are operational
• A five star Hotel 'Grand Mercure' by one of the worlds biggest hotel chain ' Accor
Hospitality' is operational in GIFT City with 95 rooms.
• Phase 1 of development has been completed in the year 2017. Second phase of
development is under progress.

14. Current status
• There is an International Bullion Exchange planned in GIFT City in near future.
• The World Trade Center -GIFT City, is final phase of completion for financial
and allied services.
• The centre will connect businesses around 343 locations worldwide.
• GIFT City's first housing project of affordable housing 'Janmangala' was
inaugurated in the year 2017.The project has around 300 dwellings.
• This project provides affordable housing for the people of LIG AND MIG
segment of society working in GIFT City.

15. Thank you
Submitted by :
B.Megha Varna
P.Nithin kumar