Step 33 of 35 · stage 8, building permission in dholera sir
DSIRDA development permission
No person or entity may erect or occupy any building or structure within the Special Investment Region except with the previous permission of the Regional Development Authority. Form C is that application.
- Official wording
- Apply to DSIRDA for development permission (Form C)
- Where you go
- DSIRDA and the Apex Authority
- Online or in person
- Offline (application to the CEO, DSIRDA)
- What it costs
- No fee published
- How long
- Under section 29 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, which...
- Record id
- SIR-DEV-01, step 33 of 35
Where you go, and how
Chief Executive Officer, Dholera Special Investment Regional Development Authority (DSIRDA), Gandhinagar
Mode: Offline (application to the CEO, DSIRDA)
This office handles 4 of the 35 steps in the register. What else it does, and what it charges.
What to have with you
The source names 4 things the office asks for. Take them all in one go and the visit is usually one visit.
- Name, address, registration number and email of the registered Architect / Engineer
- Name and details of the registered Structural Engineer
- Name and details of the registered Clerk of Works
- Village name, TP scheme number, revenue survey number, original plot number, final plot number, final plot deduction and sub-plot number with areas in square metres
Quoted from the prerequisite list in the register. Where the source names a detail rather than a document, such as a survey number, it is listed as the source words it.
The form you fill in
Form No. C - 'Application for development permission under section 8, 15 of GSIR Act, 2009 and 27, 34 and 49 of GTPUD Act, 1976', Appendix D to the Draft General Development Control Regulations (DGDCR) of DSIRDA. Accompanied by the DSIRDA scrutiny checklist for a development permission case ('વિકાસ પરવાનગીના પ્રકરણની ચકાસણીનું પત્રક').
What it costs
No fee published. This is one of the 18 steps of 35 where no government source we read publishes an amount, so nobody can tell you the figure in advance from an official page.
Here is exactly what was searched, quoted from the register's own limitations list:
DSIRDA development permission (Form C) fee and BU scrutiny fee: NOT PUBLISHED. Form No. C carries no fee clause and the BU checklist has a blank line for the scrutiny fee amount. The DSIRDA General Development Control Regulations (DP Report 2 / GDCR) at https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/dp-report-2/35 was not among the local artifacts and may carry a fee schedule; it was not retrieved. Recorded as null.
How long it takes
Quoted from the source, in its own words:
Under section 29 of the Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, which applies mutatis mutandis in the SIR: if the appropriate authority fails to communicate its order to the applicant within THREE MONTHS from the date of receipt of the application, the permission shall be DEEMED TO HAVE BEEN GRANTED on the expiry of that period. Section 32: every permission granted or deemed granted under section 29 remains in force for ONE YEAR and then lapses; the authority may extend it by periods not exceeding one year at a time, subject to an aggregate maximum of THREE YEARS. Appeal against a DSIRDA decision lies to the Disputes Resolution Forum within FIFTEEN DAYS (including public holidays) of the decision, and a second appeal to the Disputes Settlement Mechanism within a further fifteen days.
The clock runs against the office, not against you. Three months for the authority to answer, after which the permission counts as granted. That is our reading of the wording printed above, which is why the wording is printed above.
The nine stated timings in the register are compared on one page.
What to watch out for
The register keeps a note against this step. It is the part most people find out too late, so it is printed in full rather than summarised.
THE DEVELOPMENT PERMISSION FEE IS NOT PUBLISHED on the Form C page or in the form itself; recorded as null. The site's Development Permissions menu also carries 'Checklist - For DP' at /for-dp/42 and 'Checklist - For BU' at /for-bu/43, and a Professional Registration list and form at /form/46. Under GTPUDA section 49(1)(c), where a town planning scheme is in force and the appropriate authority does not communicate its decision within three months of the acknowledgment of receipt, permission is likewise deemed granted. Section 16(6) of the GSIR Act empowers DSIRDA to pull down or demolish anything built contrary to its decision and recover the cost.
The law behind it
Sections 8, 15 and 16, Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009; sections 27, 29, 32, 34 and 49, Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 (applied by section 17 of the GSIR Act, under which DSIRDA is the 'Appropriate Authority' for the SIR area)
Where this came from, and what comes next
Citation: doc_172.pdf page 1 (form title and addressee); doc_173.pdf pages 1-19 (checklist); GSIR Act 2009 pages 17-18 (s.16(2) previous permission required, s.16(5)(a) fifteen-day appeal, s.17(3) DSIRDA is the Appropriate Authority under GTPUDA); gtpuda.pdf page 26 (s.29 three-month deemed grant) and page 27 (s.32 one-year validity, three-year aggregate cap)
Government page: https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/form-c/40
Value date: GSIR Act 2009 (Gujarat Act No. 2 of 2009); GTPUDA 1976 (President's Act No. 27 of 1976); DSIRDA form and checklist as published on dholera.gujarat.gov.in, captured 2026-08-04
Local file read: doc_172.pdf (Form No. C, 5 pages, from the DGDCR Appendix D, pages 230-234); doc_173.pdf (19-page DSIRDA development-permission scrutiny checklist); fc.html / sir.html (captured dholera.gujarat.gov.in navigation)
Last verified: 4 August 2026
- The step before: 32. Selling an allotted DICDL plot
- The step after: 34. Building use permission
- This stage: Permission to build inside Dholera SIR
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