Dholera SIR Smart City of India

Dholera SIR: The India's First Planned Greenfield City

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Silent Features-Dholera SIR

Dholera SIR : A Self governed global centre of economic activities...

Empowered mechanism for administration
Autonomy in operaions
Flexibility in decisions
Dholera Metro City
Commitment to adopt best practices
Full potential for private sector participation
Fully developed environment & framework for PPP

PSP modes : BOT, BOOT etc already operational

Dholera SIR - Overview

Dholera SIR : Ideally located, widely connected...


 Project Vision-Dholera SIR

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 objectivs 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 infrastucture and attract global investment".

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

Location Profile-Dholera SIR

DHOLERA is situated in Ahmedabad district in the Gulf of Khambhat

Identified as a Greenfield port, it will be developed along with private sector participation by Dholera Port Limited (promoted by J K Group and Adani Group).

Dholera is in proximity with the coastal line. It is covered by water faces on three sides, namely, on the east face by Gulf of Khambhat, on the north side by Bavaliari creek and on southern side by Sonaria creek.

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.

Proximity to Ahmedabad has provided Dholera a strong locational advantage with a vibrant manufacturing base and investment scenario.

The project is spread over an area of 35,000 hectares. The processing area which is proposed is 14,000 hectares and rest is non- processing zone.

Dholera port is primarily involved into handling general cargo, dry bulk, containers, ship breaking and chemical handling facilities.

Location: Dholera Special Investment Region

Strategically located, the Ahmedabad-Dholera industrial region lies within 100 km from the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in Southern Gujarat.

Connectivity

National Highway 8 connects the Dholera Special Investment Region with Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar and Mumbai. 
Dholera itself has good connectivity with National Highway (NH) 8 (Anand) and 8A (Bagodra),augmenting Bagodra -Bhavnagar,
Bagodra- Surendranagar- Radhanpur links.
As a part of Golden Quadrilateral, the 500 km Mumbai- Ahmedabad- Vadodara Express way connects the region.
In order to make the region more assessable, an airport and a port are proposed in this region.
The port site is proposed to be connected by road with Ahmedabad – Bhavnagar highway at a distance of about 11 kilometres.
site Rail connection is being planned for Dholera, while the nearest meter gauge connection is Bhavnagar (34 km) and the nearest broad gauge
 station is Tarapur (103 km).