Dholera (Ahmedabad), May 25 (PTI) Dholera Industrial City, the first greenfield industrial smart city coming up over 920 sqkm here, is ready to welcome its industrial citizens as the first phase of the project spanning 22.5 sqkm is almost fully complete.
Dholera Industrial City is located around 110 km southwest of Ahmedabad on the western coast, encompassing 22 villages and the Dholera taluka, and is part of the ambitious USD 90-billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor announced in 2009 by the then prime minister Manmohan Singh.
“Only around 5 per cent of the key infra work, primarily of the 100-meter wide storm water canal, is left to be completed, which we plan to finish at the earliest. All other major work is ready and we are ready to welcome industrialists to make our city their new home,” Hareet Shukla IAS, the managing director and chief executive of Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) and Dholera Industrial City Ltd told PTI here.