Dholera Special Investment Tender

ScopeThe Dholera Special Investment Region DSIR is proposed as a major new industrial hub to be located about 100 kilometres km south of Ahmedabad and 130 km from Gandhinagar within the Saurashtra peninsula. The site covers an area of about 920 sq km of land bordering the Gulf of Khambhat. The DSIR is the first investment region to be designated under the proposed DelhiMumbai Industrial Corridor Project DMIC a joint Indian and Japanese initiative to create a linear zone of development along a Dedicated Freight Corridor DFC railway line. The DSIR covers a substantial area of land totalling to approximately 920 sq km and encompasses 19 villages of Dhandhuka Taluka and 3 villages of Barwala Taluka total 22 villages of Ahmedabad District making it the largest of the investment nodes proposed so far in the DMIC influence region. The site is strategically situated between the main industrial centres of Ahmedabad Vadodara Surat Rajkot and Bhavnagar. It is linked to the major ports of Gujarat by State Highways but as yet has no direct rail connection. The nearest international airport is at Ahmedabad although there is a current proposal to develop a new international airport to the north-east of the DSIR at Navagam Village. The existing population within the study area is only about 37000 census 2001 inhabiting small settlements. Agriculture is the principal land use and activity within the area although the land is generally of poor quality and saline especially close to the sea and farm output is not high. Land values are therefore relatively low. The DSIR will become a sizable city by 2030 and will therefore need to develop Government