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Dholera Tenure Atlas
A plot in Dholera is governed by its legal class, and that class is set by documents rather than by the market. This atlas records those documents: eight town planning scheme records, the twenty two villages notified into the region in 2009, and each land class the sources define, quoted rather than summarised. Where a class is not defined in the sources, the gap is printed instead of filled.
The question this atlas answers
Two parcels a short walk apart can sit in different legal classes, and the class decides what may lawfully be done with each. The question is therefore not what a parcel is worth. It is what the parcel legally is, which scheme it falls in, and what the sanctioning document directs.
The town planning scheme is the instrument that answers most of it. The Development Plan describes the mechanism plainly.
Under the Town Planning (TP) Schemes land is not acquired by the Government agency. It is reshaped, readjusted and returned to the original owner. Generally when a Town Planning Scheme is laid in an area, a certain per cent of land is deducted from original plot and utilised in providing common infrastructure and facilities like roads, gardens, play grounds etc. Land parcels retained by the authority are then used for 'public purposes'.
dp_report1.pdf, p.182, Section 10.5 The Proposed Strategy for DSIR, OFFICIAL
Read the full mechanism, with every provision quoted, on the pooling page. The land classes themselves, and the classes the sources do not define, are set out on the land classes page.
The eight scheme records
The Development Plan divides the region into six town planning schemes. Two further preliminary schemes, 2/A and 4/A, exist as their own signed sheets, and no supplied document states how they relate to schemes 2 and 4. This atlas therefore holds eight records and asserts no relationship between them.
| Scheme | Stage | Area, sq km | Part villages | Notification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheme 1 | draft | 51.40 | 4 | SIRAA/03/2012/566-A |
| Scheme 2 | no stage stated | 102.34 | no list supplied | none supplied |
| Scheme 2/A | preliminary | not in the TP table | 4 | none supplied |
| Scheme 3 | sanctioned draft | 66.60 | 8 | SIRAA/06/2013/439 |
| Scheme 4 | no stage stated | 60.00 | no list supplied | none supplied |
| Scheme 4/A | preliminary | not in the TP table | 2 | none supplied |
| Scheme 5 | no stage stated | 74.75 | no list supplied | none supplied |
| Scheme 6 | no stage stated | 67.33 | no list supplied | none supplied |
Areas come from one place, the TP TABLE inset of Figure 10-2 in dp_report1.pdf p.183, whose own column header reads approximate. Full record for each scheme is at the scheme register.
The twenty two notified villages
The 2009 notification lists each village with its count of survey numbers and its area. Nineteen villages were in Dhandhuka taluka and three in Barwala taluka as those talukas stood in 2009. The areas are far from even: Bavaliyari carries 111.2724 sq km and Bhimtalav carries 7.4042 sq km.
Every village has its own record at the village register, including which schemes name it and what the sources do not say about it.
What the sanction actually directs
The supplied documents state a deduction, not a return. The Apex Authority notification sanctioning Draft Town Planning Scheme No. 3 directs the Town Planning Officer to maintain an average 50 per cent deduction, with named exceptions. That is an average across a whole scheme rather than a promise attached to any one plot, and no supplied document phrases it as a percentage the owner gets back.
Dated 24 October 2013. Source notif_dtps3.pdf p.2. OFFICIAL The direction was read in the scheme 3 sanction only; the supplied file set contains no equivalent direction for any other scheme. The full pooling record quotes it and every related provision.
How to read this atlas
Every figure is dated and sourced
Value, unit, the date it refers to and the document it came from, all in view. Nothing is carried over from memory or from a listing site.
MethodologyGaps are printed, not filled
Four schemes have no village list and six have no notification in the source set. Those cells say so. None is interpolated.
Declared limitationsProvisions are quoted, never paraphrased
Statutory text appears verbatim with its instrument, section and page. If the source set has no provision for a class, the page says that.
Citation registerThe data is downloadable
Both datasets, four derived tables and the land-class term audit, as JSON and CSV.
Data