If you build late
This page tells you what the Dholera allotment policy charges when a buyer holds a plot without starting construction. It matters because the land is not sold to be held, and the meter starts twelve months after the lease is signed.
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In plain words
You are charged 0.25 per cent per month on the allotment price you paid, for as long as construction is late. The starting gun is the lease deed. Construction must begin within 12 months of the lease being executed, or within 18 months where the project needs environmental clearance under the 2006 notification. A quarter of one per cent a month is three per cent a year of the price of the land.
- Construction delay penalty
- 0.25% a monthOn the allotment price of the land or plot paid by the allottee. Status OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, pages 22 to 23 of 27, section 2.9 clause 7.
- You must start within
- 12 monthsFrom execution of the lease. Status OFFICIAL.
- Where clearance is needed
- 18 monthsWhere Environmental Clearance is required under the EIA notification of 2006. Status OFFICIAL.
- What the charge is calculated on
- The price you paidNot on the market value and not on the reserve price. Status OFFICIAL.
This is what stops a plot being parked
An industrial authority allotting land below market rate has one obvious problem, which is buyers who take the land and sit on it. This clause is the answer to that. It converts holding into a running cost, and it does so from a date the authority controls, because the lease deed is executed by the authority.
For anyone weighing up a plot here, the honest way to read it is that the timetable is part of the price. Twelve months from signature is not long for an industrial build.
The base is the price paid, which matters
The clause charges on the allotment price of the land paid by the allottee. So the penalty is proportional to what you paid rather than to what the land is now worth. Someone who bought early and cheaply carries a smaller monthly charge than someone who paid more for the same delay.
The clause runs across a page break in the source document, from page 22 onto page 23. Both halves are recorded here so the sentence can be checked whole.
A second, larger penalty comes later
Starting construction is not the end of the obligation. There is a separate charge at double this rate if the building is finished but never brought into use, which is on the occupancy page. And if you decide to give the plot back rather than build, the money already paid is forfeited, which is on the surrender page.
The clause, word for word
In case of the delay in construction of allotted land / plot, the allottee will be levied construction penalty at 0.25% per month on [the allotment price of the land / plot paid by the allottee].
DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 22 of 27 continuing onto page 23, section 2.9 clause 7
Status: OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, pages 22 to 23 of 27. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.