How the land is handed out
This page tells you the mechanism by which land in Dholera changes hands from the development company to a business. It matters because the land is leased rather than sold, and because two of the only dated awards on the public record came out of an auction.
No paid placement · No developer money · Nothing for sale
In plain words
It is a lease, not a sale. The committee may allot land by lease for a term not exceeding 99 years, granted in consideration of premium or rent or both. Premium means the lump sum paid at the start. Three routes exist: auction, tender and direct allotment, and the policy writes conditions for each. In practice the only two allotments in this register that carry a date were both awarded through e-auction.
- The instrument
- A leaseNot a sale. Status OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 7 of 27, section 2.3, substituted by Amendment 01 of 2019 section 5.
- Maximum term
- 99 yearsA term not exceeding 99 years. Status OFFICIAL. Same clause.
- What you pay
- Premium or rent or bothThe clause allows any of the three. Status OFFICIAL. Same clause.
- Dated awards on record
- 2, both e-auctionBoth dated Letters of Award in this register came from e-auction. Status OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Annual Report 2024-25, for the year ended 31 March 2025, PDF pages 28 and 29.
Leasehold is the default, and it is written into the rate card too
Two separate official sources agree on this. The policy says the committee may allot by lease for up to ninety nine years. The DICDL land pricing page attaches a note to its rate table saying allotment will be done for ninety nine years on leasehold basis. So the rate card is quoting the price of a ninety nine year lease, not the price of freehold land.
Anyone comparing a Dholera rate against a freehold price somewhere else is comparing two different things.
Auction and tender are written as separate procedures
The policy gives auction its own section with its own conditions, and tender its own section with its own. Both require the same INR 20,000 processing fee, and tender adds earnest money at five per cent of the reserve price. Those figures are on the bidding costs page.
Both routes then converge on the same payment timetable, which is set out on the payment schedule page.
What the record actually shows happening
Only two allotments in this whole register carry a date, and both are Letters of Award from an e-auction: one to a firm for a residential and commercial mixed use project on 14 November 2024, and one to a joint venture for a hotel on 24 December 2024. Both are set out on the auction awards page.
For every other named allottee, no document in this source set states how the land was allotted. That is why the tenure list shows six of twelve parcels with nothing in the tenure column.
The clause, word for word
The committee may allot land /site by lease for a term not exceeding 99 years, to be granted in consideration of premium or rent or both.
DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 7 of 27, section 2.3 Method of Allotment. Substituted by Amendment 01 of 2019, section 5, with effect from 16 February 2019
Status: OFFICIAL. Source: DICDL Land Allotment Policy 2016 as amended to 16 February 2019, page 7 of 27. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.