The words, in plain English
This page explains every piece of jargon that appears on the government papers behind this register, in the plainest words we can manage. It matters because most of these documents are readable once you know what four or five terms mean.
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In plain words
Land papers in Dholera are written in a vocabulary that is not difficult so much as unfamiliar. An allotment is land handed over by the authority. An allottee is whoever received it. A premium is the lump sum paid at the start. Tenure means how the land is held, and here it is almost always a lease. Everything below is a term that appears in a document quoted somewhere on this site, explained once and then used consistently.
- Terms explained here
- 18Every term is one that appears in a source document quoted on this site. Nothing has been imported from elsewhere.
- Documents they come from
- 5 official sourcesA gazette notification, audited accounts, the allotment policy, a procurement document and the official rate card.
- Terms deliberately absent
- Anything not in the sourcesWords used on other Dholera sites but absent from these documents are not defined here.
- Last verified
- 4 August 2026The dataset behind every definition was extracted on 4 August 2026. Status OFFICIAL.
The people and the paper
Allotment. Land given out by the authority to a business or a body. In Dholera it is almost always a long lease rather than an outright sale.
Allottee. The company, firm or body that received the land.
Allotment letter. The letter telling you the land is yours if you pay. Accepting it and paying the first ten per cent are the same act, and the payment clock starts on the date it carries.
Letter of Award, often written LoA. The letter issued to the winner of an auction or tender confirming they have won. Both of the only dated allotments in this register are dated by their Letter of Award.
Lease deed. The registered document that actually creates the lease, signed after the money is paid.
The money words
Premium. The lump sum paid at the start for the lease. This is the real price of the land.
Lease rent. The yearly amount payable during the lease. Here it is a token Re. 1 per square metre per year, and it sits on top of the premium rather than replacing it.
Reserve price. The floor price for a plot, fixed by the Land Management Committee. Auctions start from it and several charges are percentages of it. It is not published.
Earnest money, often written EMD. A deposit lodged with a bid, here five per cent of the reserve price, set against your first payment if you win.
Processing fee. A flat INR 20,000 to register to bid or to submit a tender.
Market value. Used in the transfer tables. The value at the time of transfer, not the price you paid.
The land words
Tenure. How the land is held. Leasehold means held for a fixed term under a deed. Freehold means owned outright, which is not what the Dholera rate card offers.
Town Planning Scheme, often written TP Scheme. The unit of planning a Gujarati city is laid out in. Land inside a scheme is reorganised into numbered final plots. One parcel in this register sits in Town Planning Scheme 2A.
Survey number. The revenue department's number for a piece of land, from the land records that predate any planning scheme. Exactly one parcel here carries one.
Plot number. The number a plot carries inside a planning scheme.
Activation Area. The priority zone inside the region, the part being developed first.
Special Economic Zone, written SEZ. An area notified by the central government with its own customs and tax treatment. One parcel here is a notified SEZ.
The institutions
DICDL. Dholera Industrial City Development Limited, the company that develops the city and allots the land. Every rate, term and penalty on this site is its policy.
DSIRDA. The regional development authority. It transferred land to DICDL as an equity contribution, which is where DICDL's inventory came from.
Land Management Committee, written LMC. The DICDL body that fixes reserve prices and approves allotments up to 250 acres.
If a word you met on a Dholera document is not here, it is because it does not appear in any of the five documents behind this register, and this site does not define words it has not read in a source.
Where these definitions come from
Every term above appears in one of the documents behind this register. The definitions describe how each word is used in those documents, not how it might be used elsewhere in Indian land practice.
Drawn from the allotments-parcels dataset, edition 2026-Q3, extracted 4 August 2026 from five official sources
Status: OFFICIAL. Source: the allotments-parcels dataset, drawn from five official sources. Last verified 4 August 2026. This record is published in full, with its own source quote, in the downloadable dataset.