Dholera Knowledge & IT Zone

The Knowledge & IT Zone takes up about 1,230 hectares of Dholera SIR — roughly 2% of the developable land (DSIRDA Draft Development Plan, Table 3-2). It’s the plan’s dedicated home for IT parks, university and college campuses, research centres and medical colleges. On paper the build rules are identical to the City Centre. FAR up to 5, height up to 150 metres, minimum 5,000 sqm on a 55-metre road and 1,500 sqm on anything narrower. FAR falls to 4 and then 3 as ground coverage rises past 10% and 20%, exactly as it does there. What makes this zone different isn’t a number. It’s a gate. Any development here needs an approved Campus Master Plan first, prepared under the Subdivision Guidelines in Chapter 11. That plan has to cover activity zones and building uses, a traffic and transportation study, a landscape master plan, pedestrian and vehicle circulation, urban design guidelines and an infrastructure and utilities plan. You cannot buy a plot here and start building. The residential rule follows from the same logic. Hostels, serviced apartments, row houses and villas are permitted — but only as components inside a campus master plan. A standalone housing project is not allowed. The plan allocates roughly 15% of the zone to medium-density housing and 14% to low density, with no high-density housing at all (Table 3-3). As elsewhere, these regulations apply to plots of 3 hectares or smaller. Larger parcels go through the Subdivision Guidelines instead, and no road in the zone is narrower than 18 metres.