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Table-2: Tree population in Municipal Corporation Areas - Eight major cities in Gujarat
Mahanagar
Palika
Human
population
Geographical
area in ha
Number of
trees above
10 cm GBH
Tree density
per hectare
Tree cover
% of
geographical
area
1. Ahmedabad
5,570,590
46,985
618,048
13.2
4.66
2. Surat
4,462,000
39,549
333,990
8.4
3.00
3. Vadodara
1,666,700
16,264
747,193
45.9
16.29
4. Gandhinagar
208,300
5,700
866,672
152.0
53.9
5. Rajkot
1,287,000
10,400
137,522
13.2
4.69
6. Bhavnagar +
Victoria Park
593,770
5,320
475,953
89.46
21.35
7. Junagadh
320,250
5,670
76,694
13.5
4.80
8. Jamnagar
529,310
3,434
45,877
13.4
4.74
Total
14,637,920
133,322
3,301,949
24.8
9.65
Note: (i) Victoria Park (202 ha.), a forest area, is within Bhavnagar Municipal Areas and a total of 212,521 trees of Victoria Pak are
included in the above figures. Similarly trees in about 450 ha of Indroda Park (forest area) are included in the tree population in
Gandhinagar.
Table-3: The tree cover and tree cover per inhabitant
Mahanagar
Palika
(Municipal
Corporation)
Geographical
area (in ha)
Tree
cover
(in ha)
Tree and
forest cover
per habitant
Trees
per 100
persons
Number of trees to meet
a minimum standard
of 10m
2
tree cover/
inhabitant (Lakh)
1. Ahmedabad
46,985
2,188
3.9 m
2
11.08
15.82
2. Surat
39,549
1,184
2.7 m
2
7.48
12.37
3. Vadodara
16,264
2,650 15.9 m
2
44.83
7.47
4. Gandhinagar
5,700
3,075 147.6 m
2
416.07
8.67
5. Rajkot
10,400
488
3.8 m
2
10.69
3.63
6. Bhavnagar +
Victoria Park
5,320
1,136 19.1 m
2
88.16
4.76
7. Junagadh
5,670
272
8.5 m
2
23.4
0.90
8. Jamnagar
3,434
1,877 3.1 m
2
8.66
1.48
Total
133,322 12,870 8.8 m
2
22.55
55.10
Note: On an average trees in cities of Gujarat are large. In above, one hectare of tree cover is equivalent to 282 trees having GBH above
10 cm. It is expected that about half of this number may be in medium to large tree category. Saplings, shrubs, woody flowering plants
and bushes below the dimension of tree size (10 cm GBH), which are not accounted in trees in the tree cover, fill some space to cover
the gap.
8. Status of tree cover in Municipal Corporation Areas
Tree counting data reveal that Gandhinagar is
the greenest city in the terms of tree density
as well as the area under tree cover. Over all,
Gandhinagar, Bhavnagar and Vadodara may be
called as green cities having tree densities higher
than the average density in the eight municipal
corporations. Other municipal corporations-
Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Junagadh and
Jamnagar have tree densities below the average.
