DSIRDA, DICDL and NICDC explained
Who plans, who builds and who funds Dholera
This page covers the three roles, and why the split matters. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
Three bodies run Dholera SIR and they are easy to confuse, so this entry separates who plans, who builds and who funds.
| 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% |
- 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.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
- 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.
- SPV
- Special purpose vehicle. A company set up to carry out one project and nothing else.
- 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.
- DMIC
- The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the national industrial corridor programme Dholera is a node of.
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
These are the core facts for dsirda, dicdl and nicdc 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.
- 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%.
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.