Dholera development plan explained
What the sanctioned plan actually fixes
This page covers plan versus scheme, and why it is the honest source. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
The development plan is the region-wide blueprint that fixes Dholera's zoning and road network, and it sits a level above the town-planning schemes that work at plot level.
| Development Plan | region-wide land-use blueprint |
|---|---|
| TP scheme | local plot-level reconstitution |
| Sanctioned by | DSIRDA |
| Covers | zoning, road network, land-use split |
- 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.
- 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.
- Final Plot
- The serviced plot an owner gets back once a town planning scheme is worked out. It is smaller than the land they put in, but it has road access and services.
- CRZ
- Coastal Regulation Zone. Coastal land where central rules limit what can be built.
- DICDL
- The company that actually builds Dholera. Gujarat holds 51% of it and the central government holds 49% through the NICDC Trust.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
Plan versus scheme
A Development Plan sets the big picture for the whole region: which broad areas are industrial, residential, City Centre, logistics, green belt or coastal-regulation land, and where the primary road and infrastructure spine runs. A town-planning scheme then implements that vision locally by reconstituting individual holdings into Final Plots. The sanctioned Dholera plan is the source for the region's headline land-use figures. Confirmed
Why it is the honest source
Because the sanctioned plan is a government document, it is the right place to check claims about how much land is really urban versus buffer. Dholera SIR is planned over about 920 sq km, of which roughly 580 sq km is developable and about 422 sq km is designated for urban development across six town-planning schemes (TP1 to TP6). Around one-third of the developable land falls in the Coastal Regulation Zone. Marketing that quotes only the 920 sq km headline without the roughly 422 sq km urban figure is quoting the envelope, not the developable city. Confirmed
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 dholera development plan explained, 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.
- Development Plan: region-wide land-use blueprint.
- TP scheme: local plot-level reconstitution.
- Sanctioned by: DSIRDA.
- Covers: zoning, road network, land-use split.
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
- DSIRDA Sanctioned Development Plan (project profile).
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.