Japan's Ambassador to India, Keiichi Ono, led a high-level delegation of leading Japanese companies on an official visit to Dholera Special Investment Region in Gujarat, the greenfield smart industrial city under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), according to a statement issued by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Thursday The visit marked a significant milestone in advancing industrial cooperation between India and Japan, built on shared values of innovation, sustainability and inclusive development.

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, P K Mishra, on Monday conducted site inspections and high-level review meetings in Dholera and Lothal to assess key infrastructure projects there. He was accompanied by two other officials in the Prime Minister’s Office – Adviser to the PM, Tarun Kapoor, and Deputy Secretary Mangesh Ghildiyal.

Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], June 16 (ANI): P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, conducted site inspections and high-level review meetings in Dholera and Lothal in Gujarat, assessing key infrastructure projects on Monday. These projects are aligned with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for industrial and economic growth, according to a release by PMO. According to the release, P K Mishra visited the under-construction Ahmedabad-Dholera Greenfield Expressway, implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He highlighted the expressway's potential to reduce travel time between Ahmedabad and Dholera to 45 minutes and emphasised timely execution with global-quality road standards.

The journey of building the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) can be described in one word: transformative. It formally began with the enactment of the Gujarat Special Investment Region (GSIR) Act in 2009, a pioneering legislative framework that enabled the planning, development and governance of large-scale industrial zones. Under this Act, Dholera was announced as the first and flagship SIR, envisioned as a Greenfield Smart City — a vision first articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat. Spanning over 920 sq km, DSIR is India’s largest greenfield urban development initiative.

A guided tour of the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) typically starts with a short audio-visual presentation titled “New Vision for New India”. It showcases a high-tech city of global standards that boasts 360-degree connectivity via air, rail, road, and ports.  Visualised as a showpiece manufacturing hub, this greenfield town of Gujarat has been in the making for the past many years. Now, finally, it is expecting an international airport sometime early next year, a broad-gauge railway line in the near future, and linkages with important ports such as Pipavav soon.

Dholera, Gujarat Located 115 kilometres southwest of Ahmedabad, Dholera is a dusty village of broken roads and rugged terrain―nondescript at first glance. The landscape is dry and barren, save for an area where construction is in full swing. Sleek office buildings are beginning to rise, and newly laid blacktop roads carve paths into the future―an empty canvas coming to life.

गुजरात के विकास के लिए राज्य सरकार द्वारा कई जरूरी कदम उठाए जा रहे हैं। इसमें केंद्र सरकार भी राज्य सरकार की मदद कर रही है। राज्य में कई प्रोजेक्ट पर काम चल रहा है, जिसके जरिए प्रदेश के इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर विकास को मजबूत किया जाएगा। इसी के तहत राज्य के धोलेरा सिटी का निर्माण किया जा रहा है। राज्य की धोलेरा सिटी में लोगों की हर एक सुविधा का खास ध्यान रखा गया है। इस सिटी में बिजनेस कॉम्प्लेक्स समेत कई मेगा प्रोजेक्ट पर काम हो रहा है। मेगा प्रोजेक्ट के तहत धोलेरा इंटरनेशनल और ग्रीनफील्ड एयरपोर्ट का निर्माण भी किया जा रहा है।

Gujarat is driving India’s dream to become the global hub of the semiconductor industry. With the vision of the Union government, its policy support, infrastructure development, and incentives, the state is the most preferred choice for semiconductor investments.

The Gujarat Semiconnect Conference, held at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, witnessed the signing of eight major Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) worth over Rs 1.04 lakh crore. In the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, these agreements aim to boost semiconductor and electronics manufacturing in Gujarat, potentially generating thousands of jobs. The three-day event was attended by over 1,500 delegates and 250 exhibitors. Among the key agreements, Jabil India signed an MoU to establish a Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Unit in Gujarat with an investment of Rs 1,000 crore. This unit will produce photonics transceivers essential for AI, telecom, the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart infrastructure, creating approximately 1,500 new jobs.

Multiple Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) were signed in the Gujarat semi-connect Conference, in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday. An MoU was signed with JABIL India company for establishing new Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Unit in Gujarat with an investment of Rs 1000 crore, according to a press release. This unit will focus on manufacturing photonics transceivers, which are essential data communication devices used in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Telecom, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart-infrastructure. The investment is expected to generate approximately 1500 new employment opportunities.