Dholera Special Investment Region
Also known as Dholera SIR or Dholera Smart City
This page covers legal basis and governance, master plan and phasing, economy and anchors, and honest status. Every figure below carries the source it came from and the date it was recorded.
The Dholera Special Investment Region (Dholera SIR), marketed as Dholera Smart City, is a greenfield industrial planned city on the western coast of the Gulf of Khambhat in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, about 100 km south-west of Ahmedabad. It is the flagship, and often the largest-cited, node of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. 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.
| Type | Greenfield industrial smart city / Special Investment Region |
|---|---|
| Location | Ahmedabad district, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India |
| Distance | ~100 km south-west of Ahmedabad |
| Planned area | ~920 sq km (~422 sq km urban) |
| Legal basis | Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009 |
| Authorities | DSIRDA (planning); DICDL (SPV) |
| Corridor | Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (flagship node) |
| Anchor | Tata Electronics semiconductor fab, Rs 91,000 cr |
- 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.
- fab
- A semiconductor fabrication plant. The factory where chips are made.
- DMIC
- The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the national industrial corridor programme Dholera is a node of.
- 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.
- 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.
Legal basis and governance
Dholera SIR is established under the Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009, which lets the state designate and regulate large investment regions. 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. The Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board acts as the apex body and NICDC is the central nodal agency.
Master plan and phasing
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. The Activation Area of about 22.5 sq km sits inside TP Scheme 2 and is the phase-1 plug-and-play zone where trunk infrastructure is reported complete. The Government of India approved infrastructure tender packages of Rs 2,784.83 crore for it, and matching equity of the same amount has been released.
Economy and anchors
The anchor industrial investment is the Tata Electronics semiconductor fab, approved by the Union Cabinet on 29 February 2024 under the India Semiconductor Mission, a Rs 91,000 crore facility built with Taiwan's PSMC for up to 50,000 wafers a month on a 300mm line. At full build-out the SIR-wide employment figure stated by DICDL is more than 8 lakh jobs, a planning target rather than a current total. The planned industrial area is about 11,000 hectares, split into clusters, with sectors spanning electronics, pharma, heavy engineering, auto, general manufacturing, agro-processing and, more recently, data centres.
Honest status
Land acquisition for the SIR was litigated in the 2010s, and delivery has run over a long timeline with repeatedly slipping targets, particularly for the airport. The counter to "nothing is happening" is that documented anchors now exist: the Tata fab under construction, ~300 MW of solar commissioned, an operational expressway and completed Activation-Area trunk infrastructure. No government source guarantees appreciation, and assured-return claims are marketing rather than fact.
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 dholera special investment region, 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.
- Type: Greenfield industrial smart city / Special Investment Region.
- Location: Ahmedabad district, Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India.
- Distance: ~100 km south-west of Ahmedabad.
- Planned area: ~920 sq km (~422 sq km urban).
- Legal basis: Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009.
- Authorities: DSIRDA (planning); DICDL (SPV).
- Corridor: Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (flagship node).
- Anchor: Tata Electronics semiconductor fab, Rs 91,000 cr.
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).
- DSIRDA Sanctioned Development Plan (project profile).
- Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd, dholera.gujarat.gov.in/about_us.
- Press Information Bureau, Release ID 2260624, 13 May 2026.
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.