Dholera Smart City Project - Dream Big - Act Big
The Dholera project encompasses an area of 920 square kilometers and is being developed with the active support of the Gujarat government. Once completed it will be a megacity with 'uncompromised infrastructure and state-of-the-art technology.
A brainchild of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, the Dholera
Project is the perfect initiative to combat urbanization issues and a key
investment option for all sorts of investors. An official in the know of things
says that the Dholera project encompasses an area of 920 square kilometers and
is being developed with the active support of the Gujarat government.
The ‘dream project’ of PM Modi,
the Dholera SIR (DSIR),
technically took birth long before he became the Prime Minister.
It will be much larger than
Singapore. The Gujarat government has plans to create 30,000 jobs within the two-three
years at Dholera Smart City, Gujarat.
“The Gujarat government has been
aiming at taking forward this project on a fast track mode with increased
investment,” an official said.
The official further told
‘Organiser’, “The Dholera Project shall be home to millions of people in search
of affordable housing and thousands of companies looking for a place to
establish and expand their businesses. The proximity that Dholera SIR Project
shares with the Delhi Mumbai
Industrial Corridor (DMIC) makes the location even more desirable, making
it a potential global trading and manufacturing hub”.
“In the Dholera project, we have
probably one of the biggest that the Indian government has ever visualized.
This will finally emerge as a project that shall be twice the size of Mumbai
and six times that of Shanghai. It’s a dream that cannot perhaps go beyond a
vision,” another official remarked.
To support its accessibility, the
connectivity of the region has been well planned and connects it through roads,
rail, metro, highway, and air to all important cities of the world.
According to Chief Minister
Bhupendra Patel, Dholera is the first new smart city in the country to get an
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) rating.
The Chief Minister also said when
implemented and functional, Dholera SIR is bigger than a developed country like
Singapore.
If it sounds big and on a global
scale, one could easily think of the project as a pro-rich or pro-urbane. Well,
to an extent it would be, as international standards would demand so.
However, those in the know of
things say with better connectivity provided by new roads and trains
connecting, the Dholera project with surrounding regions, farmers can access
markets far away faster.
Of course, when completed, the
Dholera Smart city Gujarat is anticipated to generate lakhs of jobs for locals
and attract investments worth billions into the country. The new
infrastructures will change rural life for farmers and their families.
ReNew Power and Chiripal Group,
two of the five companies given land in the Dholera Special Investment Region
(DSIR), have begun building their units.
Chief Minister Patel also visited
the project site to check on the progress of the work lately.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled
the design on April 15th, 2017, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos,
Switzerland. The construction of 1st Phase will be completed in 2023 and by the
year 2042, it would have completed its final phase of work.
In the first phase, sources say
the world-class infrastructure worth Rs 3,000 crore had been built in an area
of 22.5 square kilometers. Around 90% of the work was done on the activation
area, which is a small part of the SIR.
Takeaways:
- Located on the banks of the river Sabarmati, Dholera project is about 80 kilometers from Ahmedabad.
- Commercial plots start at around Rs 40 lakh for around, 10000 sq. ft, and residential plots start at Rs 20 lakh for around 4500 sq. ft.
- Tata Chemicals Ltd is building a 10 GWh Li-Ion battery plant on 126 acres, Hindustan Petroleum is building gas stations and charging stations for electric vehicles on three acres, and Torrent Power has built a power distribution network on six acres.
- Chiripal has been given 90 acres for a plant that will make aluminum foil and PET Resin.
Inset:
- The Gujarat government has given the green signal to the state’s first monorail project between Ahmedabad and Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR).
- Industries in Dholera Smart City: Electronics, Aviation, Auto and ancillaries, Heavy engineering, Defense, High-tech, General Manufacturing, Agro and food processing Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and Metals and metallurgical products.
- Key Phases and milestones did by 2030, and complete works to be done by 2042.
- “Gujarat has not only attained new milestones in development, but it has also redefined the concept of progress and prosperity and to an extent what a welfare state can achieve. The officials now need not look to run after investors. Investors are queuing in to enter Gujarat. It’s therefore time to spread wings and take the next leap into the open sky and future space,” – says an official.
- Gujarat is at the cusp of writing yet another new chapter.
Source: https://organiser.org/2022/10/10/96299/bharat/dream-big-act-big-dholera-smart-city-project/
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