Dholera Industrial City Development Limited, the special purpose vehicle that builds the city, incorporated on 28 January 2016, held 51% by Gujarat (via DSIRDA) and 49% by the Centre (via the NICDC Trust).
Why this matters when you build in Dholera
Dholera runs on a specific vocabulary, and getting it wrong costs money. "DICDL" is one of the terms you will meet the moment you move from browsing to buying or setting up a unit, because the SIR is a planned, statute-backed region rather than an open market. Understanding it lets you read a land offer, a status update or an approval correctly, and spot when a claim does not add up. If a broker or a listing uses this term loosely, treat that as a prompt to verify against the official position rather than to take it on trust.
Where the official record lives
The reason this vocabulary matters is that in Dholera almost every important term maps to an official record you can check, rather than to a marketing claim you have to trust. Town-planning schemes and development plans sit with DSIRDA, the planning authority. Project registrations sit with GUJRERA, the state real-estate regulator, at gujrera.gujarat.gov.in. Land records, the 7/12 extract and the encumbrance history sit with the revenue department. Corridor and infrastructure status sits with NICDC and the relevant central bodies. When a term like this is used in a sales conversation, the useful next move is always the same: ask which official record backs the claim, and go look at it. If the term is being used in a way the official record does not support, that gap is exactly what your due diligence exists to catch.
Where it fits
For how it plays out in practice, see the master plan, the live status tracker, the industrial land page and the GUJRERA verifier.
How this page is sourced
Everything on this site is held to one standard so you can trust it enough to act on. Every figure is tagged by where it comes from: green for government or official sources, amber for national or trade press, and red for broker or unverified claims, which we flag rather than repeat as fact. Every figure carries a date, because Dholera moves and a number that was right last year may not hold now. Anything framed as a future event, an opening, a first chip, a completion, stays labelled as a target until a government source confirms it happened. We do not sell plots, we do not publish invented reviews or registration numbers, and where a fact is not reliably available we say so instead of guessing. The full method and the primary sources are on the sources and methodology page.
Read the tags as a confidence meter. A green figure is something you can plan against today. An amber figure is credible but worth confirming before you build a decision on it. A red figure is a claim we are showing you so that you can recognise it, not one we stand behind. When two sources disagree, we say so and show the more authoritative one rather than averaging them into a number that is nobody's actual figure. The point of all of this is simple: you should be able to act on what you read here, and check any of it yourself, without wondering whether a number was quietly invented to make the picture look better than it is.