Ahmedabad News Roundup | New IT Special Economic Zone, Direct Ahmedabad-Malaysia flight & more

From hotel prices in Ahmedabad skyrocketing ahead of the World Cup final to a new IT Special Economic Zone to come up in the city, we've got you covered with all the city's recent highlights in this Ahmedabad News Roundup.

Ahead of Christmas and the New Year, a direct flight from Ahmedabad to Malaysia will begin operations, starting December 1. It is noteworthy that this flight is one of the 40 new domestic and international flights added to the winter schedule for Ahmedabad's SVPI airport.

India's best IIM, IIM Ahmedabad is all set to begin its Summer Internship Recruitment Process for 2023-24. The recruitment, for the PGP-FABM programme will begin on October 31. Focused on postgraduate programmmes, the recruitment will be conducted in 3 cohorts.

Ahmedabad is currently undergoing a peculiar crisis as over a thousand street lights have either stopped working or gone missing. The darkness caused by up to 1300 missing street lights has led to more and more citizens raising this security concern with the AMC, with it being the biggest grievance reported by them.

World Cup fever has gripped India and, especially Ahmedabad. Though we are far from the finals and finding out the finalists, hotel prices in Ahmedabad have already skyrocketed for Nov 18 and Nov 19, reaching as high as ₹96,300 for ITC hotels. The World Cup final will be played at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium on November 19.

After setting a target of 85 schools under the Mission Schools of Excellence Project, the state government has now brought the number down to 25. These will include a total of 20 Gyan Shakti Residential schools and Gyan Shakti Tribal Residential schools and 5 Raksha Shakti schools. It is noteworthy that these schools will offer free education to the underprivileged students between Class 6 and Class 8.

With an investment of a whopping ₹8,000 crore, Ahmedabad will soon get a new IT Special Economic Zone (SEZ). To be known as 'Million Minds Tech City', the new IT SEZ in Ahmedabad will come up near the Chharodi Village that runs along Ahmedabad's SG Road.