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Last reviewed 11 August 2026
The Wire / Industry / 2025
Happened 5 March 2025DURABLEPublished 11 August 2026Reviewed 11 August 2026

The chief minister laid the foundation stone for the hospital, school and fire station after the contracts had already been signed

Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel virtually laid the foundation stone for Dholera's 200-bed hospital, integrated school and fire station on 5 March 2025, at the opening of Gujarat Semiconnect 2025 in Gandhinagar.

Confirmed by an official document: a government release, a filing, or the company's own published statement.

The sequence is in one government document and it is worth laying out in order. The hospital contract was awarded on 16 December 2024. The school and fire station contracts were awarded on 28 February 2025. The foundation stone came on 5 March 2025, five days after the second pair of contracts and nearly three months after the first.

None of that is unusual for a public project, where a ceremony is scheduled around a summit rather than around a spade. We are setting the dates out because a foundation stone is often read as the start of a project, and here it was not.

What the source itself says

At the inaugural ceremony of Gujarat Semiconnect-2025, held 5 to 7 March 2025 in Gandhinagar, Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel virtually laid the foundation stone for several social infrastructure projects at Dholera SIR including a 200-bed multi-specialty hospital, an integrated school and a fire station. Dr. Kuldeep Arya, IAS, managing director of DICDL, presented at a thematic seminar.

Every figure on this page, with its source status. Source: DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25.
WhatFigureUnitAs ofStatus
Foundation stone date2025-03-052025-03-05CONFIRMED
School contract award date2025-02-282025-02-28CONFIRMED
Fire station contract award date2025-02-282025-02-28CONFIRMED
Hospital contract award date2024-12-162024-12-16CONFIRMED

Last verified: 11 August 2026. Read the status column this way. CONFIRMED means the named document states the figure. REPORTED means a credible outlet states it and no document confirms it. TARGET means somebody is aiming at it. UNKNOWN means no source we hold gives it, and we would rather leave the row empty than fill it with an estimate.

What would move this onCompletion of the three buildings, none of which has a disclosed completion date.
Where this came fromDICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (PDF pp.17, 22, 24, 26)

Several of these documents are large PDFs on government portals that move without notice. Where a document has no stable deep link we cite it by its number and date so it can be found again. See the source register for what each document is and what we took from it.

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