Dholera Discovery
Explore the planning structure, land-use framework and connectivity of Dholera SIR. Whether you are evaluating land or preparing a project, start by understanding the region.
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At a glance
Four numbers that describe the structure of Dholera SIR. Each one comes from a published plan or gazette, and each one means something narrower than it first appears.
920 sq km
Dholera Special Investment Region
About 91,970 hectares. The same plan also records an earlier figure of roughly 878 sq km, superseded by the survey-validated figure.
Source: DSIRDA Development Plan, Table 3-2 and §1.3
22
Revenue villages in the region
Of Ahmedabad district. The Development Plan attributes 19 to Dholera taluka and 3 to a second taluka.
Source: DSIRDA Development Plan §1.3 and DSIRDA Villages Map
6
Town Planning scheme families
TP 1 and TP 2 were sanctioned on 3 October 2012; TP 3 to TP 6 on 24 October 2013.
Source: Gujarat Government Gazette, Part IV-C
27
Sub-schemes within those families
The split was made by the Town Planning Officer under section 63 of the 1976 Act. The gazette notifications recite the split list themselves.
Source: DSIRDA Split TP Boundary sheet and the gazette notifications
421.47 sq km
Area under the Town Planning schemes
The sum of the six scheme areas published on the DSIRDA split-boundary sheet. It is not the area of the region, and it says nothing about what is developed or available.
Source: DSIRDA Split TP Boundary sheet (sum of the 27 printed sub-scheme areas)
22.54 sq km
Activation Area
Formed under Town Planning Schemes 2A and 4A. It is a designation of where development is concentrated, not a statement that the land is built on.
Source: DICDL published pages (About Us, FAQs)
Town Planning schemes
Dholera SIR is divided into six Town Planning scheme families, and each family is divided into sub-schemes. The areas below are the sum of the sub-scheme areas published on the DSIRDA split-boundary sheet.
5,109.1 ha 51.09 km²
Sanctioned without modifications. 2 of 6 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 1 — sub-schemes, areas and notification status10,232.48 ha 102.32 km²
Sanctioned without modifications. 3 of 8 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 2 — sub-schemes, areas and notification status6,631.9 ha 66.32 km²
Sanctioned subject to a Schedule of modifications. 2 of 4 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 3 — sub-schemes, areas and notification status6,021.95 ha 60.22 km²
Sanctioned subject to a Schedule of modifications. 1 of 3 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 4 — sub-schemes, areas and notification status7,425.25 ha 74.25 km²
Sanctioned subject to a Schedule of modifications. 2 of 4 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 5 — sub-schemes, areas and notification status6,725.88 ha 67.26 km²
Sanctioned subject to a Schedule of modifications. 1 of 2 sub-schemes in this family have a gazette notification that was located and read in full.
Explore TP 6 — sub-schemes, areas and notification statusExplore by requirement
The planning context tells you what kind of work a site involves. The requirement tells us what to source. Pick the one that matches and we will take it from there.
Connectivity
The region has a 109 km access-controlled expressway under implementation, a 24.4 km freight rail alignment under implementation, an airport site under construction, and a completed internal network of 72 km. A planned facility is never the same as an open one.
Ahmedabad–Dholera expressway, 109 km, four-lane, access controlled, implemented by NHAI.
Freight rail, 24.4 km broad gauge, Bhimnath to Dholera, under implementation by Western Railway.
Dholera International Airport site at Navagam, about 20 km from Dholera. Not operational, and not on the Airports Authority of India’s airport list.
Internal road network of 72 km, a 50 MLD water treatment plant, a 10 MLD sewage treatment plant and a 20 MLD common effluent treatment plant.
Planning knowledge
Most Dholera conversations go faster once these three are clear. They are the difference between a question we can answer and one we have to send to a lawyer.
What the six Town Planning schemes are, how they were sanctioned, and which of the 27 sub-schemes have been notified.
Read itThe eighteen broad zones the Development Plan allocates, and the difference between a planning category and a plot’s actual permission.
Read itHow a plot is reconstituted under a Town Planning Scheme, and why there is no single deduction percentage across Dholera.
Read itDholera — a national development vision
Dholera sits inside a national programme of planned industrial cities. This video is third-party coverage of that programme and of the Dholera SIR — it is published here as context, and the business behind it is a property media channel, not a government body.
PM Modi on Dholera SIR | India's Biggest Smart City Investment Explained
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Who you are talking to
Top Dholera is built around Subedar Major Dr. Bharat Kumar Pandey. After serving the nation in the Indian Army, he brought that discipline, responsibility and public service into his next chapter: a resource sourcing and coordination business for Dholera.
The philosophy has not changed. It is the reason the site tells you plainly what is confirmed and what is not.
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Send us what you need and where. We will tell you what can be supplied, what has to be sourced, and what would need to be confirmed first.
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