The words, explained

A Town Planning scheme is the statutory instrument that divides a part of the region into plots, fixes the road and public-facility reservations, and reconstitutes the original plots into final plots.

In Dholera the Apex Authority — which is the Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board — sanctioned six draft Town Planning schemes: TP 1 and TP 2 on 3 October 2012, and TP 3 to TP 6 on 24 October 2013. Each notification is published in the Gujarat Government Gazette, Part IV-C.

A scheme also carries its own schedule of modifications, and its own set of road widths, plot rules and development controls. Those are what actually govern what may be built.

A TP scheme is the legal instrument for an area, not a description of it. It is the document you would read for a specific plot.

The Town Planning Officer split each of the six draft schemes under section 63 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act 1976. The six families are divided into 27 sub-schemes: six in TP 1, eight in TP 2, four in TP 3, three in TP 4, four in TP 5 and two in TP 6.

The split lists are recited in the gazette notifications themselves, so they are not an inference from a drawing. The areas are published on the DSIRDA split-boundary sheet.

Thirteen of the 27 carry a gazette notification that was located and read in full: TP 2A and TP 4A in July 2018, TP 3B in November 2025, and ten more on 30 March 2026. Every one of those sanctions a Preliminary scheme.

The sub-scheme is the unit you can actually get a notification for, and the unit a gazette reference points to.

An Original Plot is a parcel of land as recorded in the revenue survey and the land records of the Revenue Department. Its shape and boundary follow the survey, not a planning grid.

When a Town Planning scheme is sanctioned, the original plots inside it are re-surveyed. Their boundaries are altered, and adjoining land is transferred, so that roads, public facilities and utility corridors can be provided for.

The statutory provision is section 45 of the 1976 Act, which describes reconstitution in exactly those terms and sets out what may be done to the original plot.

An Original Plot is what the revenue records say you have, before any scheme redraws it.

A Final Plot is the land that remains after reconstitution: a re-surveyed parcel with a defined boundary, a defined road frontage and access to the services laid in the road corridors, allotted back to the owner.

The 1976 Act defines it as a plot reconstituted from an original plot and allotted in a town planning scheme as a final plot.

The OP and FP geometry is shown on DSIRDA's own Preliminary TP Scheme 4/A drawing, which is titled "PLAN-3: ORIGINAL PLOT & FINAL PLOT (PLANNING)".

A Final Plot is the result of the scheme, not a separate purchase and not a fresh title.

No. This is the single most repeated error about Dholera, and it is worth being precise about it.

The 1976 Act itself states no percentage. Section 45 prescribes reconstitution by alteration of boundaries and transfer of adjoining land. It is a qualitative rule.

The 50 per cent figure comes from the gazette schedules for TP 3, TP 4, TP 5 and TP 6, which direct that an average 50 per cent deduction be maintained, excluding gauchar land, water bodies, religious places, burial grounds, kabrastans, crematoria and samg hans.

TP 1 and TP 2 were sanctioned without modifications and carry no such direction. TP 2A and TP 4A do not carry it either.

The same schedules also contain scheme-specific carve-outs — for example a direction to reconstitute a particular survey number in Otariya without deduction.

There is no general Dholera deduction rule. The figure that applies to any plot is the one in that plot's own scheme schedule, and it can differ from plot to plot within the same scheme.

No, on both counts.

Title, ownership, possession, encumbrances, development permission and current availability are six separate questions. Each needs its own verification: the land records and a lawyer's search for the first two, the scheme and the GDCR for the third, and a specific owner and a specific transaction for the last.

A planning map shows what the plan allocates. It cannot tell you who owns a parcel, whether that parcel is free of charges, whether a building may be approved on it, or whether it can be bought this week.

Top Dholera does not hold land and does not verify title. We will not point you at a map and imply otherwise.

A map is a starting point for a question, never the answer to one.

No. The region has work in three different states at once.

In service: the internal road network of 72 km, the 50 MLD water treatment plant, the 10 MLD sewage treatment plant, the 20 MLD common effluent treatment plant, the storm-water network and 500 MVA of distribution capacity.

Under construction: the 109 km Ahmedabad–Dholera expressway, the 24.4 km Bhimnath to Dholera freight rail alignment, the airport site at Navagam, a GETCO substation, the piped natural gas line and the TSMPL fabrication facility.

Proposed: the semi-high-speed rail line, which has no published alignment, length, operator or date.

The airport is worth singling out. It is under construction and is not on the Airports Authority of India's published airport index. A 2021–22 brochure projected it would open in 2024. That projection was not met and is not a current fact.

A facility being "coming to Dholera" and a facility you can use today are different categories. Always ask which one you are being told about.