Dholera SIR Village List & Map 2026: All 22 Villages — and the Ones Outside the Boundary

The Dholera Special Investment Region is made up of 22 revenue villages. That is the number the state notified in 2009, and it is the number DICDL still publishes: 22 villages of Dholera taluka, across roughly 920 square kilometres.

The confusion starts immediately after that. Search for a Dholera village list and you will find 22, 33 and sometimes 50 or more. All three numbers can be correct — they are counting different geographies. Only one of them describes the SIR.

This Dholera SIR village list separates them, names the 22 villages, identifies the villages outside the boundary, and shows how to check a specific survey number against the official maps. If you are evaluating a parcel, the checking method matters more than any list.

A Special Investment Region is a legal designation, not a marketing boundary. Gujarat's SIR Act allows the state to declare a defined territory and give it a planning authority, a development plan and a coordinated process for land use and infrastructure.

For Dholera, that territory was notified in 2009 and is described through revenue villages. The village is the unit the state uses to locate land. Inside that unit, the parcel is identified by its survey number.

That hierarchy matters because three different things get mixed up in property conversations:

A village can be inside the SIR while a particular survey number is not yet part of a town planning scheme. Those are separate facts. A seller who blurs them is not giving you the information you need.

The same applies in reverse. Land outside the SIR can still have clear title, legal access and a valid agricultural use. Being outside is a planning fact, not a verdict on the parcel.

The names below follow DSIRDA's own DP Villages Map, which is the cleanest public reference for the boundary. Common spellings from revenue records and older notices are shown alongside, because the same village can appear under two or three spellings across different documents.

Two notes on the table. First, 'Part' means the village contributes land to the roughly 22.5 sq km Activation Area; it does not mean the whole village is developed. Second, the spellings vary because revenue records, census tables and planning maps were prepared at different times. If a portal does not recognise 'Ambali', try 'Ambli'.

The official map is worth opening even if you already have the list. It shows the DSIRDA boundary against individual village boundaries, which is the visual answer to the question most buyers are actually asking: which side of the line is this parcel on? Open the DSIRDA DP Villages Map.

The SIR boundary is not a circle drawn around Dholera town. It follows revenue geography, which is why the shape is irregular and why the village list is the most useful index to it.

Above the village sits the development plan. DSIRDA's planning page describes the SIR at about 920 sq km, with town planning schemes 1 to 6 covering 422 sq km and Phase I covering 153 sq km of TP1 and TP2. The Activation Area, where trunk infrastructure was built first, is about 22.5 sq km.

Read that as a set of nested geographies:

A parcel's position in that stack determines what can be built, when, and under whose approval. A village name alone tells you none of it.

The 2009 notification is sometimes quoted at 879.34 sq km, while DICDL's planning page says about 920 sq km. Both figures are official, but they come from different documents and dates. For a buyer, the practical reference is the village list and the map, not the headline area.

Here is where most village lists stop — and where the useful part begins. The SIR does not cover all of Dholera taluka. The Census 2011 District Handbook counts 33 revenue villages in the taluka (Statement V). Twenty-two are in the SIR. The other eleven are not.

The eleven outside the SIR are:

Navagam is the clearest example of why the distinction matters. The Dholera International Airport is being built near Navagam, which is in Dholera taluka but not one of the 22 SIR villages. A major project can sit next to the boundary without being inside it. The same is true of land.

Beyond the taluka, the wider ring includes Dhandhuka taluka, where Rojka is located, and villages in Barwala taluka. Those areas are outside the SIR too. They are not outside the region, and they are not outside the development story — but they are outside the notified boundary, and that changes which planning rules apply.

This website's property is in Rojka, in Dhandhuka taluka, just outside the SIR. We publish that plainly because a village list is only useful if it is applied honestly — including to the land we are selling. The boundary page sets out what outside status does and does not mean.

Three numbers dominate the search results, and each has a different basis.

The test is simple: ask what the number is counting. A list of 'Dholera villages' that does not say whether it means the SIR, the taluka or the district is not a boundary document. It is a directory.

This is not a pedantic distinction. A buyer who believes a parcel is inside the SIR when it is in one of the eleven outside villages may be pricing in planning permissions, infrastructure or resale assumptions that do not apply. The gap between SIR and taluka is exactly where that mistake happens.

There is a second layer of confusion. Older notifications and revenue records describe some of these villages under Dhandhuka or Barwala taluka, while DICDL today describes all 22 as villages of Dholera taluka. The Census handbook records that Dholera taluka was formed from Dhandhuka and Barvala (Botad), so older documents place the same villages in different talukas. That is why the village name, not the taluka label, is the stable identifier.

The list is a starting point. Here is the sequence we would run on any parcel in the region.

The scam-alert guide goes deeper on each check, including the red flags that should end a conversation.

One practical note: the village name on a portal may be spelled differently from the name on the map. If AnyROR does not return a result, try the variants in the table before concluding that the record does not exist.

A village list answers one question: which side of the notified boundary is this village on? It does not answer the questions that decide whether a parcel is a good purchase.

Those are parcel-level facts. They come from records, a site visit and independent advice — not from a village name. The buyer checklist sets out the order we would use.

The property this site represents is in Rojka, a village in Dhandhuka taluka. Rojka is not one of the 22 SIR villages. It sits just outside the boundary, on the Dholera–Dhandhuka side of the region.

That is not a disclaimer added at the end. It is the reason this article exists. Most Dholera village lists are written to make a parcel feel closer to the project than it is. A list is only useful if it can be applied against the seller's own land, and we are willing to apply it against ours.

If you are evaluating a parcel in Rojka or elsewhere in Dhandhuka taluka, the Rojka village page and the circle-rate explainer cover the local detail. If you are evaluating land inside the SIR, start with the official map and the TP scheme, not a broker's list.