Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Monday directed the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to rehabilitate 4,000 families who have lost their homes on the riverbed due to the Sabarmati River Front Development project. During a hearing on a PIL filed by three organisations against eviction of people living on the riverbed for the riverfront project, a division Bench of Chief Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya and Justice MS Shah asked the civic authorities to rehabilitate 4,000 families residing on the stretch between the Subhash Bridge and Ellisbridge to a rehabilitation site identified in Balol Nagar in Wadaj area. This rehabilitation is the first phase of the shifting of affected people. The court has asked AMC to complete rehabilitation process of these people within two months and come up with a status report on March 8. In the meantime, the issue of variation in figures of project affected people was also discussed during the hearing. While the civic body claims that the project affected people are nearly 8,000 families, a study conducted by IIM-A and a people