GPR Survey in Patan, Gujarat – Underground Cable & Utility Detection

Rates and page checked: 23 October 2026

Why bring in a GPR survey company in Patan before excavation?

Patan is the headquarters of its district in north Gujarat and one of the oldest towns in the state, once the capital of the Solanki rulers. Streets that have been dug and resurfaced for centuries now carry electricity cables, water mains, drains and telecom lines, often with no single drawing that shows them all.

A GPR survey company in Patan gives the excavation or drilling team a picture of what lies below before the first cut. Radar picks up metal and plastic services, and electromagnetic locating confirms conductive cables. Findings are sprayed onto the surface and set down in a signed report, so the people digging know where to slow down and hand-excavate.

Detail on how cable tracing works is on our underground cable detection page.

Which buried services do Patan projects usually meet?

• Electricity distribution cables – HT and LT lines in the UGVCL network, plus street-light and service cables.
• Water supply – mains and house connections, many of them in plastic pipe.
• Drainage – sewers, storm drains and old masonry channels in the older quarters.
• Telecom – copper cables and newer OFC ducts along main roads.
• Private services – cables and pipes inside campuses, workshops and housing societies.

For distribution cabling specifically, our HT/LT cable route survey explains what is scanned at joints, crossings and substation approaches. Telecom contractors can see the OFC route survey page.

How are Patan's narrow old-town lanes surveyed?

The historic core has tight lanes, closely built houses and frequent house connections running out from the frontage. Vehicle-mounted equipment is of little use there. Our crews work with hand-pushed radar carts and portable EM locators instead.

What changes in practice:

• Survey lines are run closer together, because services turn and branch often.
• Every visible chamber, valve cover and meter box is noted and tied to the scan.
• Parked vehicles, steps and shop fronts limit coverage, so each blocked stretch is recorded rather than guessed.
• Work is timed around market hours where the lane is busiest.

This kind of street gives a GPR scanning crew in Patan more to record per hundred metres than an open road, and the report reflects that detail.

Can survey work be done near Rani ki Vav and other heritage areas?

Rani ki Vav, the stepwell on the bank of the Saraswati river, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the town has other old structures as well. Any digging or utility work near protected monuments needs permission from the authorities responsible for them; arranging that is the project owner's task.

Radar itself is non-intrusive – nothing is drilled or opened – which makes it a sensible first step before any service work in such surroundings. Where permission is in place, we scan the approved strip and report what is found, including old masonry or buried structures that show up on the radar.

How deep can a ground penetrating radar survey in Patan see?

No fixed depth can honestly be promised in advance. Reach depends on soil type and moisture: dry, sandy ground lets the signal travel further, while wet clay or salty ground absorbs it quickly. Old fill under town streets, with brick and rubble mixed in, also scatters the signal.

A ground penetrating radar survey Patan engineers can rely on therefore states the depth actually achieved on each section. Where the design depends on a deeper line, we can open trial pits or drill boreholes at the specific points you choose, on request.

What does a GPR survey in Patan cost?

Patan invoices are worked out per metre of route that the radar covers. Plain survey: ₹24 for each metre. L-section survey, giving a depth profile of the services detected down the route: ₹32 for each metre. Short Patan jobs are billed as 4 km, and with Patan well beyond Delhi NCR, its project bills bottom out at ₹1,00,000. Both floors are pre-tax figures, and GST is added to the Patan invoice.

Worked figures for Patan, before GST:

• 3 km lane survey: 4 km at ₹24 is ₹96,000, so the project minimum of ₹1,00,000 applies.
• 7 km feeder cable route, standard: ₹1,68,000.
• The same 7 km with an L-section: ₹2,24,000.
• 150 km district programme: ₹36,00,000 at list rate, less 25% because the order passes 100 km, giving ₹27,00,000.

Discount slabs apply to the entire order, every metre included – a quarter off once the total tops 100 km, 40% once it tops 500 km, half once it tops 1,000 km. Separate prices cover mobilisation, any night shift, traffic arrangements or permissions, and CAD/GIS drawing sets. The full table is on the GPR survey price list.

How do our crews reach Patan from Faridabad?

All equipment and staff come from our Faridabad base. The company owns 58 GPR systems and 18 HDD rigs, and the crews are on our own payroll; no machine is hired and no work is sub-let. Over 23 years the team has scanned more than 1.5 lakh km in 28+ States and UTs.

For north Gujarat, one mobilisation can serve several towns. Routes in Patan can be combined with work in Mehsana or Palanpur, which shares the travel cost and can push the total length into a discount slab. Other towns in the state are reached through our Gujarat GPR survey hub.

Mezux Touch is not affiliated with UGVCL or any other DISCOM; we work for whichever contractor, consultant or owner places the order.