What if my Dholera building is finished but not operating?

Q: What if my Dholera building is finished but not operating?

The charge is 0.5 per cent per month on the allotment price you paid, and it bites when the operating permission has not been obtained within three years of the lease being executed. For an industrial unit that permission is the Consent to Operate from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board. For a non-industrial building it is the occupancy certificate. DICDL gives thirty days notice before the charge starts. Extensions are capped at three years in total.

Built, but not working

This page tells you what happens when a building on Dholera land is standing but has never been brought into use. It matters because the charge is twice the construction penalty and it is triggered by a permission you get from the pollution board, not by the building itself.

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In plain words

The charge is 0.5 per cent per month on the allotment price you paid, and it bites when the operating permission has not been obtained within three years of the lease being executed. For an industrial unit that permission is the Consent to Operate from the Gujarat Pollution Control Board. For a non-industrial building it is the occupancy certificate. DICDL gives thirty days notice before the charge starts. Extensions are capped at three years in total.

Occupancy delay penalty: 0.5% 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, page 23 of 27, section 2.9 clauses 9 and 11.
The deadline: 3 yearsFrom execution of the lease, to obtain consent to operate or the occupancy certificate. Status OFFICIAL.
Notice before it starts: 30 daysDICDL gives notice for a period of 30 days first. Status OFFICIAL.
Extensions available: 3 years maximumCapped in aggregate. Status OFFICIAL.

Twice the rate for a reason

The construction penalty is a quarter of a per cent a month. This one is half a per cent. The policy is charging more for a finished shell that produces nothing than for a plot that has not been started, which is a deliberate ordering rather than an accident of drafting.

Read together, the two clauses describe a three year runway from lease signature: begin inside twelve months, be operating inside thirty six.

The trigger is a certificate, not an opinion

What ends the exposure is a specific document. For industry it is Consent to Operate, usually written CC and A, issued by the Gujarat Pollution Control Board. For everything else it is the occupancy certificate. Being open for business without the certificate does not stop the clock, because the clause is written against the certificate.

Extensions exist but they run out

The policy allows extensions and then caps them at three years in aggregate. So the outer edge is a lease signed, three years to be operating, and up to three further years of extension. After that the clauses recorded here stop describing what happens, and this register stops as well rather than speculating.

The charge on being late with money rather than late with building is a different clause at a different rate, on the late payment page.

The clause, word for word

DICDL after giving notice for period of 30 days], will levy penalty at 0.5% 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 23 of 27, section 2.9 clauses 9 and 11. Applies where consent to operate from GPCB, or the occupancy certificate for non-industrial buildings, is not obtained within three years of lease execution

Status: OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 23 of 27. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.