The size is approximate
This page tells you that a plot area quoted in a Dholera auction is not a promise, and how much it is allowed to move. It matters because you agree in advance to accept a plot up to fifteen per cent larger or smaller than the one you bid on.
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In plain words
No. The policy states plainly that the size of the plot announced is only approximate, and a winning bidder has to accept a variation of up to 15 per cent either way. If the plot turns out larger you pay for the extra at the auction rate. If it turns out smaller you are refunded at the same rate. On a plot of 10,000 square metres, fifteen per cent either way is a range from 8,500 to 11,500.
- Permitted variation
- 15% either wayThe bidder shall have to accept it. Status OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 18 of 27, section 2.6 clause xiv.
- How the difference is priced
- At the auction ratePayment or refund of premium for the varied area at the auction rate. Status OFFICIAL. Same clause.
- Who bears the uncertainty
- The bidderThe clause requires acceptance rather than offering a choice. Status OFFICIAL.
- What this means for this register
- Read every area looselyTreat any single allotment area here as plus or minus 15 per cent unless a registered deed says otherwise.
This clause changes how every area on this site should be read
Published plot areas in Dholera are approximate by policy, not by accident. That is a statement about the whole dataset, not just about auctions. When this register prints 66.166 hectares or 1,167.87 hectares, it is printing what the document printed, and the document itself is working in a system that permits fifteen per cent movement at handover.
So the ranking on the largest parcels page is a ranking of stated areas. Two parcels within fifteen per cent of each other are not reliably in the order shown, and this register would rather say that than pretend to a precision the source does not have.
Fifteen per cent is a lot of money
At the published industrial rate of Rs 4,000 per square metre, fifteen per cent of a 10,000 square metre plot is 1,500 square metres, or Rs 60 lakh at that rate. The clause makes that a payment or a refund rather than a dispute, which is tidy, but it is not a trivial sum to have floating.
The rate used is the auction rate, meaning the rate your bid established, not the rate card. The published rate card is a separate thing, on the rates page.
The clause sits inside the auction section
It appears at clause xiv of the auction conditions. The register records it as a standing term because it describes how areas behave generally, but its written home is the auction procedure. Whether an identical tolerance applies to a direct allotment is not stated in the sections recorded here.
The clause, word for word
The size of the plot announced by [DICDL] being only approximate, the bidder whose bid is accepted shall have to accept variation up to 15% either way in the area of the plot for which the bid has been offered subject to payment or refund, as the case may be, of the amount of premium for such varied area at the auction rate.
DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 18 of 27, section 2.6 clause xiv
Status: OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 18 of 27. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.