Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) to host Gujarat’s largest airport

Mumbai, 25 February 2021: The Airport Authority of India, today released a Rs. 987 crore tender for Phase 1 of Dholera International Airport which will be aligned with a Fire-Station of Category 9 and will incorporate a runway with length of 3200mts x 45mts width which will be suitable for Type 4E Aircrafts. The Dholera Airport will be located in the North of the DSIR and is expected to cater to not only DSIR and its hinterland, but also to traffic overflow from the Ahmadabad international airport.

The state of Gujarat comprises three international Airports, out of which Ahmedabad is the busiest airport in Gujarat and the 7th busiest airport in India. The lack of international airport in Saurashtra and its vicinity will make Dholera international airport strategic and advantageous in many ways. The upcoming airport will be an advantage for the Aerospace, Defence and manufacturing industries who look forward to invest in the greenfield industrial smart city of Dholera and provide greater impetus to tourism & travel in Gujarat.

Shri Manoj Das, Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) in Chief Minister’s office (CMO) and in charge ACS, industry and mines department said “The proposed Dholera International Airport project would serve the logistic requirement of upcoming Dholera SIR besides handling the spill over traffic from existing Ahmedabad Airport in future. This will propel an airport led economic growth in the entire region in line with other Aerotropolis worldwide. In the coming years this International Airport will help boost the entire Aerospace Ecosystem in the state of Gujarat”

Shri Hareet Shukla, IAS, Managing Director, Dholera Industrial City Development Ltd (DICDL) said “With the State-of-the-Art International Airport - Dholera is set to become the largest airport in the state of Gujarat and this will enable the development of MRO, Defence & Aerospace Industries close by. The proposed airport will also handle the increasing traffic from the nearby cities like Vadodara, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Nadiad and Anand. This will be truly a best in class services and infrastructure enabled airport.”

Dholera International Airport will match all the required parameters and this will make it best in class for all kind of activities related to Aviation Industry, in and around the vicinity

The Gujarat Government has allocated 1427 hectares of land for the said project and 75 hectares of government land, has been allocated for commercial development. Also all the other relevant ancillary services will be developed by the government like power, water, flood control and roads.

About Dholera

The Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR) is a major Greenfield Industrial Hub planned and located approximately 100km south of Ahmedabad and 130km from the State Capital Gandhinagar. The project as envisaged will be the first initiative from National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) to create a linear zone of industrial clusters and nodes to be developed in the influence area of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC).

DSIR has been planned over an extensive area of land measuring approximately 920sqkm and encompassing 22 villages of Dholera Taluka in the Ahmedabad District. This will be by far the largest of investment nodes planned along the influence of DFC in the DMIC region. This node is strategically located between the industrial cities of Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Bhavnagar urban agglomerations. The nearest international airport is at Ahmedabad and Government of Gujarat through the Dholera International Airport Company Limited (DIACL) has plans to develop another international airport in the north-east of the proposed investment region. NICDC Limited with support of DSIRDA, plan to create an economically and socially balanced new-age City with world class infrastructure and highest quality-of-life standards and sustainability in the urban form. This new age city aims to have a sustainable urban transportation system within and mobile/ efficient regional connectivity with neighboring cities and the rest of the country.