The Dholera timeline
This page puts the whole history of Dholera in one list, oldest at the top, so you can check for yourself whether something you have been told is genuinely new.
It is useful because Dholera has been announced many times over fifteen years. Seeing the dates in order shows which promises were kept, which slipped, and which quietly disappeared. Each line carries the same label as the rest of the site: DURABLE where an official document says it, REPORTED where only news outlets do. Where sources disagree with each other, we say so on the individual entry pages rather than smoothing it over here.
- 6 Apr 1930DURABLE
Dholera Satyagraha: salt-law civil disobedience at Dholera port after Dandi; Amritlal Seth leads about 21 satyagrahis, Balwantrai Mehta a larger contingent on 13 April.
- 2009DURABLE
Gujarat Special Investment Region Act creates Dholera SIR's legal basis; the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor programme takes shape with Dholera as its largest node, a reported superlative.
- 2011-2015DURABLE
Land transfers begin; farmer petitions lead to a Gujarat High Court stay on SIR acquisition in 2015. Delay becomes the defining criticism of the decade.
- 19 Sep 2014DURABLE
MoEF&CC grants environmental clearance.
- 28 Jan 2016DURABLE
DICDL incorporated: Gujarat 51 percent via DSIRDA, Centre 49 percent via NICDC Trust.
- Apr 2018REPORTED
Dholera ultra-mega solar park approved; 5 GW remains the long-range target.
- 14 Jun 2022DURABLE
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approves phase 1 of Dholera airport: Rs 1,305 crore, 48 months, operations planned from 2025-26. Every later airport date is a revision of this one.
- Sep 2022DURABLE
Vedanta-Foxconn, now dead and never built, sign an MoU at a widely cited 19.5 billion dollar joint venture value. Foxconn withdrew in July 2023.
- 10 Jul 2023DURABLE
Foxconn withdraws; the JV built nothing. The figure was never committed capital.
- 13-18 Dec 2023DURABLE
The NICDC chief executive and DICDL's managing director spend six days in Japan on the Vibrant Gujarat roadshow, pitching Dholera to Japanese companies.
- 14 Dec 2023DURABLE
Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel reviews infrastructure progress and industry establishment on site at Dholera.
- Jan 2024REPORTED
Airport terminal EPC of about Rs 333 crore awarded; phase-1 civil works with Varaha Infrastructure about Rs 636 crore.
- 29 Feb 2024DURABLE
Union Cabinet approves the Tata Electronics-PSMC fab: Rs 91,000 crore, up to 50,000 wafers a month. Ground-breaking follows in March.
- 14 Nov 2024REPORTED
Jabil signs a Rs 1,000 crore EMS MoU; operations expected by 2027.
- 19 Jan 2025DURABLE
Cabinet Minister of Industries Balvantsinh Rajput reviews the airport, the ABCD Building and the activation area on site.
- 5 Mar 2025DURABLE
Fiscal Support Agreement signed for the fab under ISM; PIB cites Rs 91,526 crore. The same day the Chief Minister lays the foundation stone for the hospital, school and fire station, whose contracts were already signed.
- 2 May 2025DURABLE
Chief Minister reviews Dholera progress on site.
- 29 Jul 2025DURABLE
Parliament is told Dholera is one of four completed projects under the national industrial corridor programme. The word applies to the activation area's trunk infrastructure, not to the city.
- 31 Aug 2025DURABLE
The central monitoring report changes its Dholera wording from trunk infrastructure nearing completion to complete. No measured quantity changes with it.
- Sep 2025DURABLE
CEA quarterly report: 300 MW commissioned of the 1,000 MW sanctioned Phase-I solar.
- 10 Nov 2025DURABLE
DICDL's ninth annual report is signed, disclosing the construction contracts, the SPML arbitration, the contractor claims against the ABCD Building and a Rs 318 crore liability running back to 2008.
- 20 Feb 2026DURABLE
L&T and Vyoma sign the Rs 25,000 crore, 250 MW AI data centre agreement.
- Feb 2026REPORTED
Gujarat Budget 2026-27 earmarks Rs 610 crore for Dholera trunk and logistics infrastructure.
- 27 Feb 2026DURABLE
A road ministry release records the expressway already open to the public for testing, five weeks before the inauguration, and gives its cost as Rs 5,800 crore.
- 14 Mar 2026REPORTED
Gujarat's first sounding rocket is launched from a temporary complex at Dholera, reaching about three kilometres.
- 17 Mar 2026DURABLE
The letter of approval for the Tata Semiconductor special economic zone is granted, three weeks before the notification.
- 31 Mar 2026REPORTED
Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway (109 km, NH-751) reported inaugurated and operational. A PMO release the day before gives its cost as over Rs 5,100 crore, Rs 700 crore below the road ministry's figure.
- 9 Apr 2026DURABLE
Gazette notification S.O. 1853(E) notifies 66.166 hectares at Dholera as a special economic zone for Tata Semiconductor Manufacturing, and makes it a deemed inland container depot.
- 14 Apr 2026REPORTED
Centre notifies the 66-hectare Tata Semiconductor SEZ.
- 5 May 2026REPORTED
Cabinet clears two more semiconductor units, one at Dholera, combined over Rs 3,900 crore.
- 13 May 2026DURABLE
CCEA approves the Ahmedabad-Dholera semi-high-speed rail: Rs 20,667 crore, about 134 km, target 2030-31.
- 17 May 2026DURABLE
Tata Electronics confirms the ASML lithography partnership.
- 4 Jun 2026REPORTED
First aircraft, an AAI calibration flight, lands on the 3,200 m runway.
- 30 Jun 2026DURABLE
Fujifilm India signs an exploratory semiconductor-materials MoU; NICDC's monitoring report records Rs 2,784.83 crore activation packages and 545 acres allotted with Tata Chemicals as anchor.
- 9 Jul 2026REPORTED
Viksit Gujarat Data Centre Policy 2026-29 names Dholera the state's primary data centre location.
- Jul 2026REPORTED
Airport reported about 80 percent complete after a ministerial review; operations targeted September-October 2026. Embraer-Adani MoU reported, exploring Dholera for aircraft assembly.
- 27 Jul 2026REPORTED
The Bhogavo river cuts off Vanitalav Bhal village in Dholera taluka and the National Disaster Response Force is called in.
- 6 Aug 2026REPORTED
Rajpath Club announces a 186 acre third campus on the Ahmedabad to Dholera corridor, about 15 km from the airport.