Dholera news, November 2025
This page collects every entry on this wire that carries a date in November 2025.
Read the dates on this page carefully. Almost everything here happened over several years and became public on one day, because 10 November 2025 is the date DICDL's board signed the report that disclosed it. The arbitration started in 2021, the contractor claims accumulated over the build of the ABCD Building, and the liability to the central corridor company runs back to 2008. A statutory report is a disclosure event, not sixteen separate events, and we file it under the date it was signed rather than invent dates for each item inside it.
Four consecutive monitoring reports from June to October 2025 all recorded 11 plots and 495 acres allotted at Dholera. The report as at 30 November 2025 records 12 plots and 503 acres, with industrial land available falling from 1,091 to 1,083 acres.
The contractor that built Dholera's main office block has five claims outstanding against DICDLThe company that built the ABCD Building, Dholera's administrative and business centre, has raised five separate claims against DICDL, and the annual report prints each of them.
Dholera's water treatment plant contract was terminated in 2021 and the arbitration is still runningDICDL terminated its water treatment plant contract with M/s SPML Infra Limited on 1 January 2021 for non-fulfilment of terms, and five years later the two sides are still in arbitration with claims running in opposite directions.
DICDL paid no dividend again, and its exemption request from the year before is still unansweredThe board recommended no dividend for 2024-25, and the request DICDL sent the state seeking exemption from the dividend rules for 2023-24 was still awaiting a reply when the report was signed on 10 November 2025.
DICDL carries a Rs 318 crore liability for money the central corridor company spent on Dholera since 2008Under the shareholders agreement, the central corridor company can recover what it spent developing the Dholera project before DICDL existed, and DICDL books that as a liability of Rs 317.95 crore covering the years from 2008-09 to 2024-25.
Committed but unspent capital work at Dholera rose to Rs 341 croreDICDL's commitments for capital assets and common infrastructure stood at Rs 341.09 crore at 31 March 2025, up from Rs 307.65 crore a year earlier.
DICDL spent Rs 44.84 lakh on corporate social responsibility and left Rs 16.50 lakh unspentThe company's CSR spend rose from Rs 26.43 lakh in 2023-24 to Rs 44.84 lakh in 2024-25, with Rs 16.50 lakh unspent at the year end.
Dholera's development company has had three managing directors since 2019 and no independent directorDICDL's own reports record three managing directors between September 2019 and the present, and record that the post of independent director sat vacant through 2023-24 so no independence declarations were obtained.
- 10 November 2025DURABLELandTata Chemicals dropped off Dholera's named allottee list and Inox Air Products appeared
- 10 November 2025DURABLELandGujarat's land contribution to Dholera is on the books at Rs 2,898.50 crore, and the share register is built one share to the rupee
- 10 November 2025DURABLELandHalf the land DSIRDA gave DICDL can be sold freely, and the rest is reserved by rule
- 10 November 2025DURABLEContradictionsOne government document calls Dholera's trunk infrastructure complete while another still calls it nearing completion
- 10 November 2025DURABLEContradictionsDICDL's own two annual reports describe the expressway with different lane counts
- 10 November 2025DURABLEContradictionsThe expressway's deadline moved twice in DICDL's own annual reports before the road opened
- 10 November 2025DURABLEContradictionsDholera airport's cargo operations were expected to begin in 2025 and there is no record that they did
- 10 November 2025DURABLEConnectivityDICDL spent Rs 28.07 lakh on the Bhimnath rail line, and the accounting says who is really building it
For the year around this month see Dholera in 2025, or the full archive for every month we have a page for.