NRI guide to Dholera

Rules for overseas buyers

This NRI guide to Dholera covers what overseas buyers can purchase and the checks involved.

Rules and verification

NRIs and OCIs can buy residential and commercial property in India but not agricultural land, so confirm a parcel's land-use and non-agricultural status first. Effective stamp duty in Gujarat is 4.9% (3.5% basic plus a 1.4% surcharge) with 1% registration. No government source guarantees appreciation, and assured-return claims are marketing rather than fact.

Because Dholera is a statutory, planned region, verification is specific rather than generic. Before any payment on a plot, confirm the town-planning-scheme status and the Final Plot number of the exact parcel matched to its survey number; confirm non-agricultural status, which applies automatically to land inside an approved TP scheme but not to raw land marketed as being "in the SIR"; check the GUJRERA registration of any plotted development live on gujrera.gujarat.gov.in; verify a clean title chain (sale deed, mother deed, a 30-year encumbrance certificate, the 7/12 extract and tax receipts); and check the promoter's actual delivery record rather than its marketing. If any of these cannot be produced, treat that as the answer.

See also

What is Dholera SIR · Master plan · Current status · Dholera in numbers · Glossary

Key facts

The core facts for nri guide to dholera are summarised below; each is drawn from the sources listed at the foot of this article and dated to the review month.

• Can buy: residential and commercial.
• Cannot buy: agricultural land.

Context

Dholera SIR is planned over about 920 sq km, of which roughly 422 sq km is designated for urban development across six town-planning schemes phased over about three decades. It is governed by the DSIRDA (planning authority) and built by DICDL, a special purpose vehicle held 51% by Gujarat and 49% by the central government through the NICDC Trust, and it is the flagship node of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. This context frames every article on the region; the specifics of this topic are covered above, and the full picture is in What is Dholera SIR and the master plan.

Reading this reference

Dholerapedia is a reference, so it is built to be checked rather than believed. Every figure in this article is tagged by source, Confirmed for a government or official record, Reported for press or trade coverage, and Unverified for a broker claim, and each carries a date because Dholera changes and a number that was right last year may not hold now. Anything described as a future event is treated as a target until a government source confirms it, and where a fact is not reliably available the article says so instead of guessing. None of this is investment, legal or tax advice, and no government source guarantees appreciation. If you are evaluating a specific plot, the figures here are context, not a substitute for confirming that parcel's GUJRERA registration, title and price yourself. Corrections that improve accuracy are welcome via the contact page, and entries are updated as official figures change rather than left stale. The reason for this standard is simple: a reference is only worth reading if you can act on it and check it, so we would rather show a smaller number of well-sourced facts than a larger number of impressive-sounding ones. Where a claim about Dholera circulates widely but rests only on a broker source, we note it as unverified rather than repeat it as settled, and where the official record and the marketing disagree, we follow the official record. For the collected figures across the encyclopedia, see Dholera in numbers, and for the full method see the methodology.

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