DSIRDA, DICDL and NICDC explained

Who plans, who builds and who funds Dholera

Three bodies run Dholera SIR and they are easy to confuse, so this entry separates who plans, who builds and who funds.

The three roles

The region is governed by the DSIRDA (the statutory planning and land authority) and built by DICDL, a special purpose vehicle incorporated on 28 January 2016 and held 51% by the Gujarat government and 49% by the central government through the NICDC Trust. In plain terms: DSIRDA is the statutory authority that owns the master plan and the town-planning schemes and holds land powers; DICDL is the special purpose vehicle that actually lays the roads, utilities and buildings; and NICDC (formerly DMICDC) is the central nodal agency for the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor that channels central support. The Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board sits above as an apex body. Confirmed

Why the split matters

For anyone dealing with Dholera, knowing the split tells you whom a document actually comes from. Planning permissions and land-use flow from DSIRDA; on-ground development contracts sit with DICDL; corridor-level funding and monitoring sit with NICDC, whose Delivery Monitoring Unit report is one of the most reliable public sources on progress. A broker citing none of these is not citing an authority. 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 dsirda, dicdl and nicdc explained are summarised below; each is drawn from the sources listed at the foot of this article and dated to the review month.

• DSIRDA: Statutory planning and land authority.
• DICDL: Development SPV that builds the city.
• NICDC: Central nodal agency for the corridor.
• DICDL incorporated: 28 January 2016.
• DICDL ownership: Gujarat 51% / Centre 49%.

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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