The price nobody published
This page tells you what the reserve price is in the Dholera allotment system, and why you cannot find the number in the policy that keeps referring to it. It matters because three separate charges on this site are calculated as a percentage of it.
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In plain words
The reserve price is the floor price for a specific plot, and the Land Management Committee fixes it from time to time. The allotment policy uses the term repeatedly and never publishes a figure. Every price field in its allotment letter and lease deed forms is left blank, printed as Price of land per sq. mt Rs. ____. The published per square metre rates on this site come from a different official source, the DICDL land pricing page, not from the policy.
- Who fixes it
- The committeeThe Land Management Committee, from time to time. Status OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, read in full, 27 policy pages plus annexures.
- Figure published in the policy
- NoneNo per square metre figure appears anywhere in the policy document. Status OFFICIAL.
- Price fields in the forms
- Left blankPrinted as Price of land per sq. mt Rs. followed by a blank rule. Status OFFICIAL.
- Where published rates come from
- A separate pageThe DICDL portal land pricing page, canonical dholera.gujarat.gov.in/land_pricing. Status OFFICIAL.
Why this matters more than it sounds
Three of the amounts on this site are percentages of the reserve price rather than fixed sums. Earnest money is five per cent of it. The Category A discount is fifty per cent off it. Any auction starts from it. So the reserve price is the number the whole system turns on, and it is the one number the policy does not print.
That is not a defect in the drafting. A floor price that moves with the market has to be set by decision rather than fixed in a policy. But it does mean that no reader can compute their own earnest money from the policy alone.
The blank line in the forms is the clearest evidence
The policy carries the actual forms in its annexures: the allotment letter, the lease agreement for industrial use, the lease agreement for non-industrial use. Every one of them has the price field left as a blank rule to be filled in by hand. Ninety nine PDF pages were read in full to confirm this, twenty seven of policy and the rest annexures, and there is no rate table anywhere in the document.
So where do the published rates come from
From the DICDL land pricing page, which is a separate official source with its own canonical government address. That page carries Table A, the eight rates from Rs 400 to Rs 8,000 per square metre that appear on the rates page here.
Those rates are an asking rate card. They are not evidence of what anyone paid, and the table itself carries no date, which is set out on the undated rate card page.
What the policy says, and does not say
Price of land per sq. mt Rs. ____
The allotment policy defines Reserve Price as a price the Land Management Committee fixes from time to time, and leaves every price field in the allotment letter and lease deed forms blank. It publishes no per square metre figure.
DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019. First line quoted from the blank price field in the Annexure 1 forms. Second line is this register's finding after reading all 99 PDF pages
Status: OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, read in full, 99 PDF pages. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.