Dholera town-planning schemes

How TP1 to TP6 organise the land

The town-planning scheme is the legal unit through which Dholera turns raw land into serviced, titled urban plots, and understanding it explains why a plot's TP and Final Plot number matter more than its marketing name.

How a TP scheme works

Development is phased over roughly three decades: Phase I (TP1 and TP2, 153 sq km) holds the 22.5 sq km Activation Area; Phase II (TP3 and TP4, 126 sq km) runs to about 2032; Phase III (TP5 and TP6, 142 sq km) runs to about 2042. A town-planning scheme in Gujarat reconstitutes scattered original land holdings into planned Final Plots, deducting land for roads, utilities and public purposes and returning a smaller but serviced, legally clean parcel to owners. Inside an approved TP scheme, land is treated as non-agricultural for the planned use, which is why the TP and Final Plot status of a parcel is the real test of whether it is genuinely developable. Confirmed

Why buyers should care

Land marketed as being in Dholera is not the same as land inside an approved, sanctioned TP scheme with a Final Plot number. The first can be raw agricultural land near the boundary; the second is planned urban land. Always match the survey number to its TP scheme and Final Plot before treating a plot as developable. 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

The core facts for dholera town-planning schemes are summarised below; each is drawn from the sources listed at the foot of this article and dated to the review month.

• TP schemes: TP1 to TP6.
• Phase I: TP1 + TP2 = 153 sq km.
• Phase II: TP3 + TP4 = 126 sq km.
• Phase III: TP5 + TP6 = 142 sq km.
• Mechanism: Original Plot to Final Plot reconstitution.

Context

Dholera SIR is planned over about 920 sq km, of which roughly 422 sq km is designated for urban development across six town-planning schemes phased over about three decades. It is governed by the DSIRDA (planning authority) and built by DICDL, a special purpose vehicle held 51% by Gujarat and 49% by the central government through the NICDC Trust, and it is the flagship node of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. This context frames every article on the region; the specifics of this topic are covered above, and the full picture is in What is Dholera SIR and the master plan.

Reading this reference

Dholerapedia is a reference, so it is built to be checked rather than believed. Every figure in this article is tagged by source, Confirmed for a government or official record, Reported for press or trade coverage, and Unverified for a broker claim, and each carries a date because Dholera changes and a number that was right last year may not hold now. Anything described as a future event is treated as a target until a government source confirms it, and where a fact is not reliably available the article says so instead of guessing. None of this is investment, legal or tax advice, and no government source guarantees appreciation. If you are evaluating a specific plot, the figures here are context, not a substitute for confirming that parcel's GUJRERA registration, title and price yourself. Corrections that improve accuracy are welcome via the contact page, and entries are updated as official figures change rather than left stale. The reason for this standard is simple: a reference is only worth reading if you can act on it and check it, so we would rather show a smaller number of well-sourced facts than a larger number of impressive-sounding ones. Where a claim about Dholera circulates widely but rests only on a broker source, we note it as unverified rather than repeat it as settled, and where the official record and the marketing disagree, we follow the official record. For the collected figures across the encyclopedia, see Dholera in numbers, and for the full method see the methodology.

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