Tuesday 4 August 2015

World's Biggest Planned City Taking Place In Gujarat DHOLERA SIR




A long time ago, in an age far, far away, there was talk of turning Mumbai into Shanghai. Impressed with China’s infrastructure, people often mention Shanghai. Sometimes, they actually mean Pudong, carved out of nothing more than fishing villages. Shanghai wasn’t Greenfield. Pudong was. Of course, this involved land acquisition, resettlement and rehabilitation. The implicit assumption is this is easier in a country without democratic processes, so dissension and conflict can be contained. Doesn’t work in India. Our problem of urban planning is we can’t have Greenfield cities.


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Consequently, we are stuck with chaotic Brownfield urbanization, inevitable because economic development is correlated with urbanization. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had smaller towns with population sizes between 50,000 and 1 million, as bridges between larger villages and 3 million-plus cities, which then lead on to metros? These 50,000 to 1 million cities will naturally be Greenfield. SEZs, especially if you leave out ITES-type ones, were meant to be this. They actually had little to do with exports. How they were marketed is irrelevant. Stuck with problems of land acquisition, the idea hasn’t worked that well. This doesn’t mean the idea is devoid of economic rationale.

Cities exist and prosper because they provide assorted network effects and positive externalities. That’s the reason urbanization is correlated with economic development. Who will develop these cities and govern them? Urban governance, provided threshold population and other criteria are met, must mandatorily be through elected urban local bodies (ULBs). Many States seem to be skeptical about ULB an capacity, which is why they use the “industrial township” route, acceptable at developmental stage, until the town is inhabited.

This is like a charter city, where the city is governed by its own charter, independent of other legislation. At Vibrant Gujarat, there was a special pavilion on Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR), described as a new Gujarat within Gujarat. The CM spoke proudly about it, describing it as something that would surpass Shanghai. If you watched the video at the pavilion, you would have believed this. The mind boggled. (You can boggle the mind by visiting the website too.) There’s a slight difference between a SIR and a SEZ. For a SEZ, one needs to acquire the entire contiguous land. With a SIR, even partial land acquisition works. Dholera will be Gujarat’s first SIR, also the first under Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project (DMIC), the joint initiative with Japan.



Tuesday 16 June 2015

DHOLERA: THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR FUTURE



The proposed special investment region (SIR) will be the first-of-its-kind to be created in the state. The land prices here have quadrupled in the last two years. Soon there will be 185 kilometres of six-lane roads. The tiny village with a population of 4,500, mostly farmers who grow wheat, jowar and cotton, is prospering and looking forward to a sea-change.
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The roads are being built at a cost of Rs 1,584 crore to be linked with the Delhi-Mumbai dedicated freight corridor.Dholera also has greater possibilities of building modern port facilities. The Adani group might consider plans to build an eco-friendly port here.

 Dholera, which is situated in Ahmedabad district in the Gulf of Khambhat, is in proximity to road transport infrastructure and sea-port facilities. And what's more, the government has proposed to build an international airport near Fedara, 30 km from Dholera ensuring that the BEST PROPERTY DEALS become the USP of this region.

The manufacturing zone has been planned keeping in mind the windflow pattern so that industrial pollution flies out of the city. Dholera will be connected to the world through a new international airport on its outskirts, to the rest of the country through a new railway line and to Ahmedabad through a ten-lane highway.  

The entire city will run on a BRT system that can be converted into a light rail transport system in the future Every housing, office, and industrial complex will be within 10 minutes walking distance of some form of public transport.  All utilities including parking spots will be underground so that there is enough space to build pavements for pedestrians and dedicated cycle tracks It will be divided into five business districts and two knowledge zones.

The city will rely heavily on solar energy for its power requirements although a dedicated 1, 300 MW power plant is planned. A hierarchy of roads, from the main ten-lane artery cutting the city into two to four-lane interior streets, is planned for smooth traffic flow and proper intra-city connectivity.

India’s is urbanizing,so much that estimates suggest nearly 600 million of Indians will be living in cities by 2030, up from 290 million as reported in the 2001 census. Alongside the hordes of Indians go the jobs and the money as well Dholera SIR would generate 70% of the new jobs created by 2030, produce more than 70% of the Indian gross domestic product and drive a fourfold increase in per capital incomes across the country.

It will have modern waste management systems and facilities to recycle sewage water for industrial use. Housing has been so designed through the mixed use pattern that the work place is close to the residential complex. This might help in increase in INVESTMENT IN RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL POLT IN DHOLERA SIR.