How Dholerapedia verifies
This page covers the sourcing standard, what we do not do, primary sources, and honest gaps. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
- NICDC
- The central agency that runs India's industrial corridor programme, which Dholera sits inside.
- 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.
- 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.
- CRZ
- Coastal Regulation Zone. Coastal land where central rules limit what can be built.
- SPV
- Special purpose vehicle. A company set up to carry out one project and nothing else.
The sourcing standard
Dholerapedia holds every figure to one standard. Each is tagged Confirmed for government or official records, Reported for national or trade press, and Unverified for broker or unsourced claims, which we flag rather than repeat as fact. Every figure carries a date, because Dholera moves and a number that was right last year may not hold now.
What we do not do
We do not quote a plot price as if it were official, we do not publish invented reviews or registration numbers, and we do not present targets as achievements. When two sources disagree, we say so and show the more authoritative one rather than averaging them into a figure that is nobody's actual number.
Primary sources
The figures here draw on the NICDC Delivery Monitoring Unit report (DPIIT), the DSIRDA Sanctioned Development Plan, PIB releases and the DICDL about page, supplemented by dated press. Where a fact is only available from broker sites, we mark it unverified or omit it.
Honest gaps
Some facts are not cleanly available from public sources: a gazette-verified list of the 22 villages, exact per-zone land-use percentages, and reliable per-plot prices. We flag these rather than fill them, because a reference that invents to look complete is worse than one that admits a gap.
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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