Farmers eager to sell land for Dholera SIR

There is a good opportunity for corporate houses, entrepreneurs, land buyers and others for making investments in lands in the Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR), which is emerging as one of India's biggest economic hub.

"The Gujarat government has already declared 43,000 hectares land of 22 villages of two talukas of Dhanduka and Barwala of Ahmedabad district to the special investment region known as DSIR through a gazette on June 4, 2009," said Jayendra Makwana, President of the Dholera Industrial Welfare Association (DIWA) told reporters here on Friday.

Development of processing industries, warehouses, solar power plant, housing sector, international airport among others are to take place in the DSIR, Makwana said.

"The members of the villages falling under DSIR have formed this association and decided to undertake visits to Vadodara, Surat, Bharuch, Dohad, Bulsar, Navsari and in north Gujarat and Saurashtra region for selling their lands to the prospective buyers," he said adding that would help them in signing MoUs with the state government during the 5th Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit (VGGIS) scheduled to be held in Gandhinagar on January 12 and 13, 2011. Many MoUs signed during the last four VGGIS held between 2003 and 2009 could not be implemented due to non-availability of land.

"Availability of land in this DSIR is at cheaper rates and is expected to shoot up later giving the example of Sanand town where land prices shot up after Tata Motors shifted its Nano project from Singur," Makwana added.