Ahmedabad, 16 May 2013

Construction work on Dholera city should be able to start within the next 6 month, said Amitabh Kant, CEO and MD of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation(DMICDC) to Financial Express(FE).

Kant further told FE that town planning for two of the total six phases(152 sq km of 540 sq km developable city) of Rs 70,000 crore Dholera city has been done, while the other four are to be done over the rest of the year. 105 sq km land for first phase has been got through land pooling.

DMICDC will first build the trunk infrastructure (roads, sewerage, power lines) with funding from the government and concessional financing from the government of Japan. After construction of a part of the trunk infrastructure —100 km of road/utilities are to be awarded in Dholera within the year, Kant told FE.

Read interesting FE report on proposed development of Dholera city here.

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