Section four
Policy and governance
Published 3 August 2026. Facts verified to 27 July 2026 unless dated otherwise.
Every rupee that lands in Dholera lands on a legal structure. This is that structure, in plain language, with tiers and dates.
Dholera SIRSpecial Investment Region: a statutory zone under the Gujarat SIR Act 2009 with its own development authority. exists because of the Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009: the legal machinery that lets a state build a greenfield industrial city with its own development authority and land pooling via town planning schemes.
Who actually runs Dholera
Two bodies, cleanly split. DSIRDADholera Special Investment Region Development Authority: the planning and land authority., the Dholera Special Investment Region Development Authority, is the planning and land authority. DICDLDholera Industrial City Development Ltd: the SPV building infrastructure (Gujarat 51%, Centre 49%)., Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd, is the SPV that builds and operates infrastructure, formed 28 January 2016 and owned 51 percent by Gujarat through DSIRDA and 49 percent by the Centre through the NICDCNational Industrial Corridor Development Corporation; its Trust holds the Centre's 49% of DICDL. Trust DURABLE. When a company negotiates land or utilities, that structure is the counterparty map. The short version is on the answer desk.
The land machine
The planning envelope is 920 sq km, of which about 580 sq km is developable and about 422 sq km urban-developable, phased over roughly three decades DURABLE as planning figures. Six town planning schemes are sanctioned; Phase I concentrates on TP1 and TP2, about 153 sq km, and the Activation Area of about 22.5 sq km is where trunk infrastructure landed first. The practical point for a business reader: Dholera's land comes through TP schemes with government-issued final plots, a fundamentally different supply mechanism from the private assembly that plagues most Indian industrial siting.
The numbers a CFO checks
- Stamp duty: 4.9 percent plus 1 percent registration in Gujarat DURABLE.
- SEZSpecial Economic Zone: a notified area treated as outside India's customs territory for authorised operations. status: the Tata Semiconductor SEZ was notified around April 2026 on 66.16 hectares DURABLE, carrying the SEZ regime's duty and compliance implications.
- NRI rule: NRIs and OCIs can buy residential and commercial property but not agricultural land DURABLE.
- Semiconductor incentives: the India Semiconductor Mission's fiscal support, evidenced concretely by the Tata Fiscal Support Agreement signed 5 March 2025 DURABLE.
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