Places to visit near Dholera
Lothal, Velavadar, Nalsarovar and more
This page covers the main landmarks, and how to use this list. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
For anyone spending time around Dholera, the region has a handful of genuine landmarks worth knowing, spanning ancient history and wildlife.
- 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.
- 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.
- DMIC
- The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the national industrial corridor programme Dholera is a node of.
- GUJRERA
- Gujarat's property regulator. A plotted project that has to register with it gets a number you can look up on the regulator's own website.
The main landmarks
These are the places worth a detour if you are already travelling to Dholera. Distances vary by route, so treat the ones given here as approximate and check them before you set out.
- Lothal, the Harappan-era dockyard site, one of the region's most significant archaeological places, relatively close to Dholera. Reported
- Velavadar Blackbuck National Park, grassland and antelope country in Bhavnagar district, in the same Bhal belt. Reported
- Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, a large wetland and winter bird destination in the Ahmedabad lowlands. Reported
- Ahmedabad, the nearest large city, now roughly an hour away via the expressway, for airport, hospitals and urban amenities. Reported
How to use this list
These are context, not part of the SIR, and they show the region mixes coastal plain, wetland, grassland and deep history. Exact distances and drive times depend on your starting point and route, so verify them for your own trip. Each has its own entry or is covered in the geography pages for more detail. Reported
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.
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
- Gujarat Forest Department and Gujarat Tourism public pages.
- Survey/Census of India district references (Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar).
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.