Dholera Tenure Atlas
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Town planning scheme 3

Draft Town Planning Scheme - 3

Scheme 3 covers part of 8 villages: Sodhi, Sangasar, Otariya, Cher, Panchi, Sandhida, Mundi, Dholera. The Development Plan gives its planning area as 66.60 sq km, approximate. Its stage in the source set is sanctioned draft, notified as SIRAA/06/2013/439 on 24 October 2013.

SheetScheme 3
Stagesanctioned draft
Area66.60 sq km
Last verified2026-08-04
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The record

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

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Planning area

Scheme 3: area and its provenance 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
The measured length is scheme 3 against a common scale. Drawn at build time from the value above. 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 performed by this atlas.

Scheme 3 against the other five rows Source: differences are arithmetic performed by this atlas on the areas printed in the TP TABLE inset, dp_report1.pdf p.183
RowIts 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
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Part villages named on the sheet

Scheme 3: the 8 part villages 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 numbersVillage area, sq km
Sodhi511851Barwala58840.4975
Sangasar511871Barwala79035.4928
Otariya511932Dhandhuka80118.0975
Cher511924Dhandhuka46416.2436
Panchi511937Dhandhuka36013.9638
Sandhida511933Dhandhuka51718.6401
Mundi511934Dhandhuka31617.8054
Dholera511931Dhandhuka96945.8145

Label in the source: PART VILLAGES :- (8). Verbatim: 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.

These are part villages. Only a portion of each village revenue area falls inside the scheme, and no supplied document states the hectares or the percentage of any village that lies inside it. The survey numbers and areas above are for the whole village as notified in 2009, not for the part inside this scheme.

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Notification

Scheme 3: the notification 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
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Sources for this record

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 source register, including which files carry no text layer, is at the source register. The provisions quoted across this atlas are collected at the citation register.