Dholera SIR to have school, hospital, fire station, desalination plant

Japan K Pathak, Gandhinagar: Dholera will get a fire station, school, hospital, desalination plant, and more in the next couple of years. Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai has, in the annual budget 2025-26, made several provisions to push infrastructure at Dholera.

A Rs. 170 crore allocation is made to develop social infrastructure (hospital and school) at the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR).

A Rs. 25 crore allocation is made to develop a fire station at Dholera SIR. Sea dredging for land filling at Dholera SPR ( by DCI – Dredging Corporation India) will take place for Rs. 10 crore.

Rs. 20 crore allocation is provisioned to develop Trunk infrastructure augmentation at Dholera SIR. A Rs. 1 crore provision is made to develop a desalination plant at Dholera SIR. Rs. 1 crore is also proposed to develop an integrated residential township at Dholera SIR.

Additionally, Rs. 5 crore allocation is proposed to develop Tent city at Dholera SIR.

A sum of Rs. 6.56 crore is proposed for reimbursement for the acquisition of additional private land for the development of Dholera Airport under state support by the government of Gujarat.

Located two hours away from Ahmedabad via the under-construction expressway, Dholera SIR is presently witnessing the construction of Tata’s semiconductor plant.  DeshGujarat