Dholera Land Rules
Edition 2026-08-04 · dholera-estate.com

Town planning scheme 3

Draft Town Planning Scheme - 3

Scheme 3 takes land from part of 8 villages: Sodhi, Sangasar, Otariya, Cher, Panchi, Sandhida, Mundi, Dholera. It covers about 66.60 sq km, and the stage it has reached is sanctioned draft, ordered by SIRAA/06/2013/439 on 24 October 2013.

PageScheme 3
Stagesanctioned draft
Area66.60 sq km
Last verified2026-08-04
In plain words

A town planning scheme is a government order that redraws all the plot boundaries in one area at once. A share of everyone's land is kept back for roads, parks, schools and land the authority can sell, and each owner gets a smaller regular plot in return. This page is the record for scheme 3.

What is not written down anywhere is how much of each of those 8 villages sits inside the scheme. Every sheet says part villages and no document puts a number on the part.

01

The record itself

Stage is the field to read first. Draft means proposed and not yet binding. Preliminary means sanctioned, so it can be acted on. Development plan allocation means it appears on the 2012 plan and nothing further reached us.

Scheme 3: the record Source: tp-schemes.json record for scheme 3, from notif_dtps3.pdf p.1
FieldValue
Record typescheme document plus notification
Stagesanctioned draft
Name on the sheetDRAFT TOWN PLANNING SCHEME - 3
Stage, verbatimthe Apex Authority Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board(GIDB) hereby :- a) Sanctions the said Draft Scheme subject to the modifications enumerated in the Schedule appended hereto

The document itself is a DRAFT town planning scheme ('SUBMITTED U/S 48 (I) OF THE GTP & UD ACT 1976 & U/S 17 OF THE GSIR ACT - 2009', dtps3.pdf p1). The 24-10-2013 notification sanctions that draft scheme subject to a 16-item Schedule. It is a sanctioned DRAFT scheme, not a final scheme.

Stage read from notif_dtps3.pdf, p.2. OFFICIAL

02

How much land it covers

The word approximate is printed on the column heading in the source itself, so treat this as a planning figure and not a surveyed measurement.

Scheme 3: area and where the number comes from Source: dp_report1.pdf p.183, the TP TABLE inset of Figure 10-2
FieldValue
Value66.60
Unitsq km
Qualifierapprox (source column header reads 'AREA IN SQ KM. (APPROX.)')
String as printed66.60
What the value refers tothe Town Planning Scheme boundary as delineated in the Final Development Plan sanctioned 2012-09-10
Date of value10 September 2012
Restated in the body text as~ 67 sq km
Sourcedp_report1.pdf p.183 (printed p.161), Figure 10-2: Town Planning Schemes in DSIR, inset 'TP TABLE'
ClassificationOFFICIAL
Planning area of SCHEME 3 66.60 on the scale of the six Development Plan rowsA horizontal scale with one measured length drawn against it.020406080100SQ KM, DEVELOPMENT PLAN PLANNING AREASCHEME 3 66.60
Scheme 3 drawn against a common scale so the eight records can be compared by eye. Drawn from the value above when this page was generated. Source dp_report1.pdf p.183.

Among the six Development Plan rows it is number 4 by area, at 15.8 per cent of the 422.42 sq km the six rows sum to. Rank, share and sum are arithmetic done by this site.

Scheme 3 against the other five Source: differences are arithmetic done by this site on the areas printed in the TP TABLE inset, dp_report1.pdf p.183
SchemeIts area, sq kmDifference, sq km
Scheme 2102.34-35.74
Scheme 574.75-8.15
Scheme 667.33-0.73
Scheme 460.006.60
Scheme 151.4015.20
03

Which villages it takes land from

The sheet calls these part villages. That phrase is doing a lot of work: only some of each village is inside the scheme, and no document we hold says how much. If your land is in one of these villages, being on this list does not by itself mean your land is in the scheme.

Scheme 3: the 8 villages named Source: village list from dtps3.pdf p.1, drawing title block. Census codes, survey numbers and areas from villages-canonical.json, gazette_mirror.pdf.
Village as printedCensus 2011 codeTaluka in 2009Survey numbersWhole village, sq km
Sodhi511851Barwala58840.4975
Sangasar511871Barwala79035.4928
Otariya511932Dhandhuka80118.0975
Cher511924Dhandhuka46416.2436
Panchi511937Dhandhuka36013.9638
Sandhida511933Dhandhuka51718.6401
Mundi511934Dhandhuka31617.8054
Dholera511931Dhandhuka96945.8145

The last two columns describe the whole village as it was declared in 2009, not the slice of it inside this scheme. Nothing in our documents gives that slice in hectares or as a percentage. This is explained further on the part villages page.

Label in the source: PART VILLAGES :- (8). Word for word: 1) SODHI 2)SANGASAR 3)OTARIYA 4)CHER 5)PANCHI 6)SANDHIDA 7)MUNDI 8)DHOLERA. OFFICIAL

Corroborated in the notification as: Draft Town Planning Scheme No 3 (Sodhi, Sangasar, Panchi, Sandhida, Mundi, Dholera, Otariya and Cher). Source notif_dtps3.pdf p.1.

04

The government order behind it

A notification here means the signed order that puts the scheme into effect, printed in the state gazette. It is the difference between a plan somebody drew and a rule that binds land.

Scheme 3: the order, as recorded Source: notif_dtps3.pdf p.1, read from a high resolution render because the file is a scanned image with no text layer
FieldValue
Notification numberSIRAA/06/2013/439
Date24 October 2013 as printed: Date: 24-10-2013
Issuing bodySpecial Investment Region (Apex Authority), Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, Block No. 18, 8th Floor, Udyog Bhavan, Sector-11, Gandhinagar
Signed by(A. K. Sharma), Chief Executive Officer to the Apex Authority of SIR & CEO of Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board
Statutes citedGujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009, sections 15(3)(iii), 17(1), 17(3), 6(2)(iv), 17(2); Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, sections 41(1), 42(1), 48(1), 48(2)
Declaration of intention5 January 2012
Draft scheme submitted to the Apex Authority13 December 2012
Publication instructionto be published in Part IV central Section, Gujarat Government Extra Ordinary Gazette of Dated 24/10/2013
ClassificationOFFICIAL

Who each of these bodies is, and the order the stages run in, is set out on the sanction page.

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Where all this came from

You should be able to check every line on this page against the document it came from. This is that list.

Scheme 3: every document behind this record Source: tp-schemes.json all_sources field
DocumentPageUsed for
dtps3.pdfp.1scheme name, villages
notif_dtps3.pdfp.1notification number, date, declaration and submission dates
notif_dtps3.pdfp.2sanction clause and Schedule
dp_report1.pdfp.183area

The full list of documents, including the four that carry no machine-readable text at all, is on the documents page. Every rule quoted anywhere on this site is collected, word for word, on the exact wording page.