Dholera industrial plots
Industrial land and allotment
This page covers how industrial land works, and what this means for investors. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
Industrial plots are a different market from residential land: they are usually allotted to manufacturers through the development authority rather than sold as small investor lots.
| Type | industrial land |
|---|---|
| Allotment | typically via DICDL / authority process |
| Scale | 11,000 ha planned industrial area |
| Buyer | manufacturers, not usually retail investors |
- allotment
- The authority handing a plot straight to a buyer, rather than the plot changing hands between two private parties.
- Activation Area
- The first 22.5 sq km, inside TP Scheme 2, which was serviced ahead of everything else, so its roads, water, power and drainage went in first.
- DICDL
- The company that actually builds Dholera. Gujarat holds 51% of it and the central government holds 49% through the NICDC Trust.
- 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.
- 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.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
How industrial land works
The plan sets aside about 11,000 hectares for industry in clusters, and industrial parcels are generally allotted to companies that will build and operate on them, through the development vehicle's allotment process, often on long lease terms. This is aimed at genuine manufacturers with a project, not at retail investors looking to flip land. The Activation Area was designed to offer plug-and-play industrial plots with utilities in place. Confirmed
What this means for investors
For most individuals, industrial land is not the relevant product; residential and commercial plots are. Where industrial allotment matters to an investor is as a demand signal: the more real manufacturers take and build on industrial plots, the stronger the case for the residential and commercial land that houses and serves their workforce. 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 dholera industrial plots, 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.
- Type: industrial land.
- Allotment: typically via DICDL / authority process.
- Scale: 11,000 ha planned industrial area.
- Buyer: manufacturers, not usually retail investors.
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
- NICDC Delivery Monitoring Unit report, 30 June 2026 (DPIIT).
- Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd, dholera.gujarat.gov.in/about_us.
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.