G. D. Sambhare and Co.: consultancy firm in Mumbai, India, offering comprehensive services in architecture, planning, project feasibility, interior design and valuation, etc. Founded in 1961, the firm holds a diverse portfolio of current projects, in the housing, institutional, commercial, retail, hospitality, healthcare, infrastructure and civic streams, in both the private as well as public sectors.

Projects
 masterplanning | residential | hospitality | retail | commercial | civic | healthcare  institutional | mass housing | slum rehabilitation schemes | infrastructure
 
 
Mass housing
 
Sahyadri Nagar
MMRDA
 
 
 
 
 
 
ANIK PANJRAPOLE LINK ROAD, MUMBAI


Client: Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA)

Site Area: 12.35 hectares

Total Built up Area : 222,000 sq.m.
 
JOGESHAWARI VIKHROLI LINK ROAD, MUMBAI


Client: MMRDA

Site Area: 1.25 hectares

Total Built up Area : 28,965 sq.m.

GDS prepared a Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) and a Community Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) through public participation, for Project Affected People (PAP) as part of the MMRDA's Mumbai Urban Transport Program - II (MUTP-II), a World Bank aided project for the widening of JVLR and APLR.

The assignment included updating existing social, demographic, economic, vulnerable group survey through respective team members, identifying land in the vicinity for possible rehabilitation schemes and to conceive a mechanism to acquire the land and formulate planning and architectural scheme.

The workplan submitted by GDS was rated as no.1 for rehabilitating 8000 PAPs. About 4000 tenements have come to the government totally free of cost. Subsequently MMRDA has continued the same mechanism for additional tenements required for MUTP.