Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway

The biggest single risk in Ahmedabad-Dholera Expressway land buying is not the project itself. It is the secondary market of agricultural land sold outside the official DSIR boundary using the Dholera Smart City brand. The Nexa Evergreen case, in which the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at 25 locations across Jaipur, Sikar, Jhunjhunu, and Ahmedabad in June 2025, exposed how two brothers allegedly defrauded approximately 70,000 investors of ₹2,676 crore through fake plot promises in Dholera. Authorities confirmed that Nexa Evergreen had no connection whatsoever to the official government project.

The structural traps that make outside-SIR plots dangerous are mapped in the table below:

A GujRERA registration number and a DICDL-issued FP number together are your two non-negotiable checks. If a seller cannot produce both within the first conversation, the plot is not inside the official DSIR development framework, regardless of what the marketing material shows.

The DSIR development plan divides 920 sq km into six Town Planning Schemes. Phase 1 (153 sq km) covers TP1 and TP2, which contain the 22.5 sq km Activation Area, 72 km of completed internal roads, and the expressway's Ambli Interchange, connecting directly to the core smart city zone. This is where GIDB has confirmed completed trunk infrastructure. Everything outside TP1 and TP2 is in progressive phases with no confirmed completion timeline.

The table below maps the major TP zones against development confidence and buyer profile:

The most misunderstood corridor is the Pipli-Airport belt. The diamond interchange at Pipli is fully complete and provides direct access to the Dholera International Airport via a 9.56 km link road. But the airport itself remains in Phase 1 construction, pending AAI commercial approval. Price land on confirmed expressway access and the operational activation area, not on airport operational timelines that are still subject to regulatory approvals.