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Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway

Greenfield access-controlled expressway

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The Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway is a greenfield, access-controlled expressway connecting Ahmedabad to Dholera SIR, built by the National Highways Authority of India.

Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway at a glance
Length109 km
Lanesreported 6-lane greenfield (verify)
AgencyNHAI (NH-751)
Statusoperational (reported Mar 2026)
Travel time~1 hour to Ahmedabad
Words on this page, in plain English
SIR
Special Investment Region. A large area the Gujarat government has set aside for industry under its own 2009 law, with its own planning authority instead of the usual local one.
NICDC
The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
TP scheme
Town planning scheme. The authority pools all the land in one area, lays out the roads and services, then hands each owner back a smaller but serviced plot.
DSIRDA
The statutory authority that plans and regulates Dholera SIR, in place of a municipal corporation.
DICDL
The company that actually builds Dholera. Gujarat holds 51% of it and the central government holds 49% through the NICDC Trust.
DMIC
The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the national industrial corridor programme Dholera is a node of.
GUJRERA
Gujarat's property regulator. A plotted project that has to register with it gets a number you can look up on the regulator's own website.

Route and status

The 109 km expressway links the Sardar Patel Ring Road near Sarkhej to Dholera SIR, and was reported inaugurated and operational from 31 March 2026, cutting travel time to Ahmedabad to around an hour. The NICDC ledger describes it as a 6-lane greenfield expressway; some earlier references describe a 4-lane road expandable to eight, so the as-built lane count is worth verifying. Reported

This article follows Dholerapedia's sourcing standard: every figure is tagged Confirmed (government or official), Reported (press or trade) or Unverified (broker), and dated. Anything framed as a future event is labelled a target until a government source confirms it. Where a fact is not reliably available, we say so rather than estimate. See the methodology.

Key facts

These are the core facts for ahmedabad-dholera expressway, written out in full. Each one comes from a source listed at the foot of this page and is current as at the review month.

Dholera SIR in one paragraph

Dholera SIR is a planned industrial city covering about 920 sq km, of which roughly 422 sq km is marked for urban development. That land is being delivered as six town planning schemes, spread over roughly three decades. DSIRDA is the authority that plans and regulates the region, and DICDL is the company that builds it, owned 51% by Gujarat and 49% by the central government through the NICDC Trust. Dholera is the flagship node of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. That is the frame every entry here sits in. The fuller version is in What Dholera SIR is and the master plan.

References

  1. NICDC Delivery Monitoring Unit report, 30 June 2026 (DPIIT).
  2. Press coverage, March 2026 (inauguration).
Filed under: Roads · Dholera SIR
How to read this entry

This is a reference, so it is written to be checked rather than believed. Each figure is marked Confirmed when a government or official record says it, Reported when the press or trade said it, and Unverified when only a seller says it. Each one carries a date, because Dholera keeps moving and a number that was right last year may not be right now. Anything still in the future is written as a target until a government source confirms it happened, and where a fact is not reliably available we say so instead of guessing.

None of this is legal, tax or investment advice, and no government source promises that land here will rise in value. If you are looking at one specific plot, treat everything on this page as background and confirm that parcel's own GUJRERA registration, title and price yourself before you pay. If a figure here has gone out of date, tell us on the contact page and we will correct it. All the figures gathered in one place are in Dholera in numbers, and the full method is on the methodology page.