Dholera Special Investment Region
India’s first greenfield
smart city.
920 sq km of planned urban geography along the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor. A new city engineered from the ground up — for two million residents, $40 billion of industrial output and an entirely new economic anchor for Western India.
920
sq km area
2 M
Target population
6×
Bigger than Shanghai's Pudong CBD
2040
Full build-out horizon
The Vision
A 2040 master plan, executing today.
Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) was notified in 2009 as the anchor industrial node of the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor — a joint India-Japan mega-project. The development is led by Dholera Industrial City Development Limited (DICDL), an SPV of the Government of India and Government of Gujarat.
The master plan splits the city into 6 Town Planning (TP) schemes covering industrial, residential, recreational, knowledge and tourism zones. The first 22.5 sq km Activation Area is now serviced — every plot has road access, ICT ducting, water and sewerage at the boundary.
When complete, Dholera will be roughly twice the geographic footprint of Mumbai and six times the size of Shanghai’s Pudong CBD — but with the planning rigour, walkability and net-zero infrastructure of a 21st-century city.
Master Plan
Three phases. One city.
Phase 1
to 2027 · 153 sq km
Activation Area + first industrial zones, ABCD building, expressway, airport Phase-1.
Phase 2
2027 – 2035 · 367 sq km
Residential expansion, knowledge & IT zones, semi-high-speed rail, mass transit grid.
Phase 3
2035 – 2040 · 400 sq km
Full city build-out, port linkages, tourism & recreation belt, 2 million population.
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Infrastructure status
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Dholera International Airport
Phase-1 complete · trial landing done
- Phase-1: 3,200 m runway built and certified
- Historic trial aircraft landing achieved June 2026
- Developer: AAI + Government of Gujarat joint venture
- Initial capacity ~10 MPPA, expandable to 40 MPPA
Why Dholera, why now
A 10-year window into a generational asset.
12–18% CAGR
Land appreciation observed in Activation Area parcels (2018–2024).
₹4 Lakh Cr+
Total announced industrial investment in DSIR (semicon, defence, solar).
1 hr
Drive from Ahmedabad once expressway opens fully.