Dholera glossary
This is a plain-English Dholera glossary. Almost every term on it maps to a specific official record you can go and check, which is why getting the vocabulary right matters more here than it usually does: if you do not know what a word means, you cannot tell whether the document you have been handed actually says what the seller says it says.
- 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.
- DMIC
- The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the national industrial corridor programme Dholera is a node of.
- 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.
- SPV
- Special purpose vehicle. A company set up to carry out one project and nothing else.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
- 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.
A to Z
These are the terms you will meet most often in a Dholera listing, a land record or a government notice, with what each one actually means. If a seller uses a word from this list, it has a specific legal or administrative meaning, and it is worth checking that the document in front of you matches it.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dholera SIR | the greenfield industrial smart city and Special Investment Region on the Gulf of Khambhat, flagship node of the DMIC. |
| DMIC | the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a Government of India programme to build industrial cities along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor. |
| DSIRDA | the Dholera SIR Development Authority, the statutory planning and land authority. |
| DICDL | Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd, the special purpose vehicle that builds the city, 51% Gujarat and 49% Centre, incorporated 28 January 2016. |
| NICDC | the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, the central nodal agency for India's industrial corridors. |
| Activation Area | the 22.5 sq km phase-1 plug-and-play zone in TP2 where trunk infrastructure is reported complete. |
| TP scheme | a town-planning scheme; Dholera's developable land is divided into six, TP1 to TP6. |
| Final Plot number | the serviced plot number a landowner receives after a town-planning scheme is finalised. |
| N.A. status | non-agricultural status; land inside an approved TP scheme is treated as N.A. by Gujarat rule. |
| CRZ | Coastal Regulation Zone; about a third of the developable land falls in it, restricting development. |
| GUJRERA | the Gujarat Real Estate Regulatory Authority; plotted developments must register before marketing. |
| Single-window clearance | a single point of application for investor approvals, run through DICDL. |
| ABCD building | the Administrative cum Business Centre for Dholera, housing the Integrated Command and Control Centre. |
| DFC | the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the transportation backbone of the DMIC. |
| SIR Act 2009 | the Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, the legal basis for Dholera. |
| Bigha | a land unit, commonly around 2,500 sq yards in Gujarat but not standardised. |
| 7/12 extract | a Gujarat land record showing ownership and rights, checked during title verification. |
| Khata | the property account obtained after registration, evidencing the holding in municipal records. |
Notes
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.
About Dholera SIR
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. 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. 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.
How Dholerapedia is sourced
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.
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