Village register

The twenty two notified villages

The notification of 22 May 2009 declared the lands of twenty two revenue villages to constitute the Dholera Special Investment Region, 879.3377 sq km across 14,574 survey numbers. Nineteen were in Dhandhuka taluka and three in Barwala taluka as those talukas stood in 2009.

SheetVillage register

Villages22

Notified area879.3377 sq km

Last verified2026-08-04

The register

The 22 notified villages, by taluka then schedule order Source: gazette_mirror.pdf pp.1 to 2 (printed pages 40 to 41) for the schedule columns; census_village_2400.xlsx for codes; the scheme sheets for membership. The share column is arithmetic performed by this atlas.
Sr	Village	Taluka in 2009	Census 2011 code	Survey numbers	Area, sq km	Share of notified area, %	Named in scheme
1	Hebatpur	Barwala	511872	1,086	72.6594	8.26	none in the source set
2	Sangasar	Barwala	511871	790	35.4928	4.04	3
3	Sodhi	Barwala	511851	588	40.4975	4.61	3
1	Bavaliyari	Dhandhuka	511941	1,204	111.2724	12.65	none in the source set
2	Bhadiyad	Dhandhuka	511926	1,908	49.7331	5.66	1
3	Bhangadh	Dhandhuka	511938	620	83.0777	9.45	none in the source set
4	Bhimtalav	Dhandhuka	511930	223	7.4042	0.84	2/A
5	Dholera	Dhandhuka	511931	969	45.8145	5.21	2/A, 3, 4/A
6	Gorasu	Dhandhuka	511925	1,219	31.1763	3.55	none in the source set
7	Kadipur	Dhandhuka	511927	648	27.3509	3.11	1
8	Khun	Dhandhuka	511929	227	38.2968	4.36	none in the source set
9	Mahadevpura	Dhandhuka	511936	179	22.5431	2.56	none in the source set
10	Mingalpur	Dhandhuka	511939	261	33.0813	3.76	none in the source set
11	Mundi	Dhandhuka	511934	316	17.8054	2.02	2/A, 3, 4/A
12	Otariya	Dhandhuka	511932	801	18.0975	2.06	3
13	Panchi	Dhandhuka	511937	360	13.9638	1.59	3
14	Rahatalav	Dhandhuka	511935	336	63.4464	7.22	2/A
15	Sandhida	Dhandhuka	511933	517	18.6401	2.12	3
16	Zankhi	Dhandhuka	511940	389	22.0941	2.51	none in the source set
17	Ambli	Dhandhuka	511905	1,084	55.2044	6.28	1
18	Cher	Dhandhuka	511924	464	16.2436	1.85	3
19	Gogla	Dhandhuka	511928	385	55.4426	6.31	1

Survey number and area are as printed in column 4 of the schedule. The share column is this atlas dividing each village area by the printed total of 879.3377 sq km, so it is derived rather than quoted. Membership shows only schemes whose sheet actually names the village; four schemes carry no village list at all.

Verification of the schedule

What the columns sum to *Source: verification block of villages-canonical.json, computed against gazette_mirror.pdf*
Check	Result
Survey number column sum	14,574
Survey number printed total	14,574
Survey number check	EXACT MATCH
Area column sum, sq km	879.3379
Area printed total, sq km	879.3377
Area check	column sums to 879.3379, printed total is 879.3377, difference -0.0002 sq km. This is an internal inconsistency in the printed gazette. Both figures are reproduced as printed; neither was adjusted.
Census codes	22/22, each name unique within Ahmadabad district sub-districts 03786/03787
Map against gazette	22/22 villages on the DSIRDA map match the 22 gazette villages, with three spelling variants (Rahatalav/Rahtalav, Ambli/Ambali, Bavaliyari/Bavliyari in census).

The area discrepancy of 0.0002 sq km is in the printed gazette itself. Every cell was re read at high resolution and no misreading was found. Both figures are reproduced as printed and neither was adjusted.

Three lists that must not be merged

The dataset emits three separate lists, and merging them produces a false picture. The notified area is twenty two villages. The Activation Area is four part villages. Dholera taluka is not established at all.

The three lists *Source: list_definitions of villages-canonical.json; the Activation Area quote from the DSIRDA about page mirror, the scheme membership from the two preliminary sheets*
List	Villages	What it is
Notified area, 2009	22	Revenue villages whose lands were declared, in column 4 of the Schedule, to constitute the Dholera Special Investment Region. This is the legally notified SIR area.
Activation Area	4	Villages whose lands fall inside the Activation Area, the 22.54 sq km first-phase development. The Activation Area is delivered through approved town planning schemes 2A and 4A; this list is the union of the "PART VILLAGES" declared on those two scheme maps.Bhimtalav, Dholera, Mundi, Rahatalav
Dholera taluka	not established	NOT ESTABLISHED - no source document available to this extraction enumerates the villages of Dholera taluka.

Activation Area, quoted: the Activation Area (22.54 sq. km of first phase development) has been developed under the framework of approved town planning schemes - 2A and 4A. Value 22.54 sq. km, as at 7 July 2026. OFFICIAL

These are PART villages: only part of each village's land lies inside the scheme. Being on this list does not mean the whole village is inside the Activation Area. A "KHUN" label appears on the TP 2A sheet but it is a neighbouring-village map label, not a part village - the title block count is (04) and the map title ends at BHIMTALAV.

The 2009 notification fixes the SIR at 879.3377 sq km. DSIRDA/NICDC current publicity says "about 920 sq. kms". Both are reproduced here as published; this dataset does not reconcile them. The village COUNT is 22 in both.

How unevenly the area sits

One hairline per notified village, placed by its area in the schedule. Source gazette_mirror.pdf pp.1 to 2. Drawn at build time.

The five largest by notified area *Source: areas and survey numbers from gazette_mirror.pdf. Rank and hectares per survey number are arithmetic performed by this atlas.*
Rank	Village	Area, sq km	Survey numbers	Hectares per survey number
1	Bavaliyari	111.2724	1,204	9.24
2	Bhangadh	83.0777	620	13.40
3	Hebatpur	72.6594	1,086	6.69
4	Rahatalav	63.4464	336	18.88
5	Gogla	55.4426	385	14.40

Hectares per survey number is the village area divided by its count of survey numbers. It is a crude average across a whole village and says nothing about any individual parcel, since a survey number is an accounting unit rather than a fixed size.