Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) is a planned greenfield industrial smart city located approximately 100 km southwest of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Envisioned as India's premier destination for manufacturing and industrial development, DSIR spans about 920 sq. kms., encompassing 22 villages. Its strategic location between the industrial hubs of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Rajkot, and Bhavnagar facilitates ease of doing business.

DSIR is designed to be a self-sustaining ecosystem, featuring economic drivers through industrialization, utility and logistic infrastructure, and social amenities such as education and healthcare. The city aims to foster economic development while enhancing the quality of life for its residents and workforce. With the support of the Government of Gujarat, the project aspires to create a balanced, new-age city boasting world-class infrastructure and high living standards.

The Government of Gujarat has established a legislative framework under the Special Investment Region Act of 2009, leading to the creation of the Dholera Special Investment Regional Development Authority (DSIRDA). This authority is responsible for planning and developing DSIR and manages land within the region.

For infrastructure development, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) named Dholera Industrial City Development Limited (DICDL) has been formed through a joint venture between Government of Gujarat through Dholera Special Investment Regional Development Authority (DSIRDA) and Government of India through the National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) which is set-up under National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC).

DICDL has been formulated for the development of infrastructure, allotment of land and assuring utility services to the tenant.

The equity participation of DICDL is as under:

The Government of Gujarat and DSIRDA have adopted the Town Planning Schemes (TPS) mechanism under the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development (GTPUD) Act 1976 to ensure the balanced and sustainable development benefiting both the local population and the private sector. DSIR is divided into six major Town Planning Schemes and 27 Sub-Town Planning Schemes, covering a total area of 422 square kilometres. The town planning schemes will be planned in a way that the community living there shall have an easy access to all social infrastructure like schools, commercial establishment, hospitals etc. Currently, TP 2A and TP 4A has been approved for the development of Activation Area (22.54 sq. km of first phase development).

As part of the initial phase of development, 22.54 sq. km. in TP 2A and TP 4A has been developed as the Activation Area, offering large, contiguous land parcels with world-class plug-and-play infrastructure. This fully integrated industrial zone is designed to cater to the needs of ultra-large industries, providing seamless access to essential utilities and services.

With a robust trunk infrastructure already in place, Dholera offers an investment-ready ecosystem for high-tech industries, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

Trunk infrastructure encompasses the development of roads with dedicated utility corridors, along with comprehensive water and power infrastructure projects. Utility services include the provision of essential amenities such as potable water, uninterrupted 24x7 power supply, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure, and natural gas supply, ensuring a robust and sustainable environment for industries and businesses.

DSIR is India's first greenfield industrial smart city. The region is poised to attract industries in sectors such as Semiconductor and allied ancillaries, Electronics Manufacturing Services, Photovoltaic cells and sunrise sectors. Gujarat is the first state to have dedicated semiconductor policy in synergy with Govt of India’s India Semiconductor Programme and hence is emerging as a hub of Semiconductor Ecosystem. Dholera has been declared as ‘Semicon City’ under Gujarat Semiconductor Policy 2022 and a focused approached is being adopted to host strategic semiconductor investments along with required ancillaries at Dholera.

Under Govt. of India’s semiconductor program, four semiconductor projects are being established in Gujarat including India’s first Semiconductor Fab with the investment of INR 91,000 Cr. by Tata Electronics at Dholera.

In the future phases of development at Dholera SIR, the focus will be on emerging high-growth sectors of national importance that seamlessly integrate industrialization with urbanization.