Dholera Sir-Gujarat smart city

To develop Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) as global manufacturing and trading hub i.e. "The engine for economic resurgence of the country" which is supported by world class infrastructure.

"The Development Plan, taking into account the DMIC objectives and goals, should focus towards creating and enabling environment to protect local industries, enhance investment climate, improve quality of life, upgrade human skills, create world class infrastructure and attract global investment". 

Project goals are to double the employment potential, triple industrial output and quadruple exports from the region in next five years.

The Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) will be a major Greenfield Industrial Hub planned and located approximately 100km south of Ahmedabad and 130km from the State Capital Gandhinagar. The project as envisaged will be the first initiative from DMICDC to create a linear zone of industrial clusters and nodes to be developed in the influence area of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).

DSIR has been planned over an extensive area of land measuring approximately 920 sqkm and encompassing 22 villages of Dholera Taluka in the Ahmedabad District. This will be by far the largest of investment nodes planned along the influence of DFC in the DMIC region. This node is strategically located between the industrial cities of Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar urban agglomerations.

The Development Plan for DSIR, Gujarat has been prepared and adopted by the Regional Development Authority (RDA) and is available at www.dmicdc.com and www.dholerasir.com. The proposed development plan has been divided into three phases with a preliminary list of potential projects. The proposed development phasing in the Development Plan was indicative and since then, Government of Gujarat has incorporated the methodology of town planning schemes in DSIR area to ensure delivery of serviced land that can benefit the local population and the private sector.

The DSIR urban development area is divided into six (6) Town Planning Schemes, under which micro level planning with neighborhood level infrastructure provisions has been carried out. Town Planning Scheme 2 covers an area of approximately 102 sqkm. Town Planning Scheme 2 contains a total length of roads of approximately 350 km with road widths varying from 12m to 250m. Services and utilities running within the road reserves will include storm water drainage, water supply, sewerage, power, telecommunications and gas.

Considering the development of TP2 area with all the components listed above is required large amount of money and time and also required longer period to develop. To start up the DSIR development with reasonable area; an Activation Area was identified which would act as catalyst for further investments. The Activation Area is envisaged to trigger developmental activities in DSIR and attract local and global investments. The area shall also help build confidence in the market bringing the efforts of the past half-a-decade to fruition.

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