Ahmedabad District · Gujarat · India

Dholera SIR: India’s first planned smart city

Dholera Special Investment Region is a 920 km² city being built from scratch across 22 villages, about 100 km from Ahmedabad. The Gujarat government is laying the roads, power, water and an international airport first, as part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. This site explains the master plan, the infrastructure and how land can be bought legally.

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Where Dholera SIR is located Schematic map, not to scale. Dholera SIR lies about 100 km south of Ahmedabad, connected by the Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway, next to the Gulf of Khambhat coast, with Dholera International Airport under construction inside the region. GULF OF KHAMBHAT Expressway ≈ 100 km Ahmedabad Gujarat’s largest city DHOLERA SIR 920 km² Dholera Int’l Airport (under construction)
Where is Dholera? South of Ahmedabad, on the Gulf of Khambhat coast. Schematic map, not to scale.

Dholera in four points

  • What it is

    India’s first greenfield Special Investment Region, planned end-to-end by the Gujarat government.

    About Dholera SIR
  • What’s being built

    Expressway, airport, underground power and a dedicated water network, built before private construction.

    Master plan & infrastructure
  • Why it matters

    An industrial corridor anchor with a designed road grid, zoning and civic services from day one.

    Why invest in Dholera
  • How buying works

    Plots inside approved TP schemes carry a government-recorded title. Know the papers to check.

    Legal process for buyers
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Latest updates

Dholera in the news

Real project milestones and government announcements from Dholera SIR — not speculation. We'll keep adding verified updates here as they happen.

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Aerial view of Tata Electronics’ semiconductor fabrication plant under construction in Dholera SIR News

The Star (Malaysia)

Kelington to support Tata Electronics’ Dholera chip fab build-out

Malaysia-based Kelington Group has partnered with Tata Electronics to help deliver critical infrastructure and systems for its semiconductor fabrication plant in Dholera SIR, supporting the facility’s push toward silicon wafer production.

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A Red Line train of the existing Ahmedabad Metro network at a station platform News Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 4.0 — existing Ahmedabad Metro, not the proposed Dholera extension

MetroRailNews

Ahmedabad Metro Phase 3 gets PIB nod, with a link toward Dholera airport

The Public Investment Board has cleared a roughly 60 km Phase 3 expansion of Ahmedabad Metro, including a corridor to Badrabad positioned as a future extension point toward Dholera International Airport. Union Cabinet approval is the next step.

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Aerial view of the completed runway at Dholera International Airport under construction, December 2025 News Photo: Sarvajanik Puralekh, CC BY-SA 4.0

Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India

Dholera Airport is 80% complete, says the Civil Aviation Minister

Union Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu reviewed construction at Dholera International Airport and confirmed the runway, taxiway and ATC tower are fully complete, with the terminal building around 75% done.

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A Vande Bharat-class semi high-speed train on an open track News Photo: Harshul12345, CC BY-SA 4.0 — representative image, not the Ahmedabad–Dholera line

Deccan Herald

Cabinet clears ₹20,667 crore Ahmedabad–Dholera semi high-speed rail

The CCEA has approved a 134 km semi high-speed double rail line between Sarkhej (Ahmedabad) and Dholera, designed for 220 km/h, cutting travel time to around 34 minutes and linking Dholera SIR, its upcoming airport, and the Lothal heritage complex.

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Most trusted land developer in Dholera

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    Residential Projects

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    Industrial Spaces

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    Commercial Malls, Theaters

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    Farmhouses

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    Plotted Townships

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    High Rise Buildings

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    Cafe, Eatery

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    Shops

The Master Plan

This is Dholera

The actual Town Planning scheme map of Dholera SIR — every sector, road and zone laid out under Gujarat government planning before a single plot changes hands.

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Why Dholera

Why serious investors are looking at Dholera

Government-backed master plan

Dholera is India’s first Special Investment Region, planned end-to-end by the Gujarat government under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor — not a private layout.

Infrastructure arriving on schedule

Activation Area roads, the 24x7 power network, water supply, and the Dholera International Airport are already under construction, not on paper.

Connectivity to Ahmedabad

A dedicated expressway and the upcoming airport put Dholera within an easy commute of Ahmedabad, shortening the gap between the city and this new industrial hub.

Glimpses of Dholera

What the region looks like right now

Land, roads, power infrastructure and the upcoming airport — the building blocks of Gujarat's first Special Investment Region, in one view.

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Aerial view of open farmland earmarked for development The Land
Construction cranes silhouetted against the sky Construction
Aerial view of a large solar power installation Solar Power
A road cutting through green farmland Roads
Aerial view of a multi-lane highway interchange Expressway
Empty airport runway stretching to the horizon at dusk Airport

Representative visuals for now — we’ll swap these for real on-ground photos of the actual sectors as Hiren Patel captures them.

The journey so far

Dholera, one milestone at a time

A quick look at how the region has moved from notification to an active construction site over the last decade.

See the full master plan
  1. 2009 Dholera SIR notified under Gujarat’s SIR Act
  2. 2016 Activation Area infrastructure works begin
  3. 2022 Dholera International Airport construction starts
  4. 2026 First industrial and residential sectors going live

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Hiren Patel has spent years tracking every TP scheme, every road alignment and every government notification in Dholera SIR — so you don’t have to piece it together from rumours.

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