Sanction
Who signs a scheme, and in what order
A scheme is not real because somebody drew it. It becomes real when a named body signs it under a named section of a named Act. This page follows that chain for Dholera, and shows how few links of it are actually documented.
Two Acts do the work here. The Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976 is the law that lets a scheme be made at all. The Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009 is what puts Dholera under a special authority instead of the ordinary local one.
The body that signs is the Apex Authority of the Special Investment Region, which sits inside the Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board in Gandhinagar. The officer who carries a sanctioned scheme through on the ground is the Town Planning Officer.
Only two signed orders exist across all eight Dholera scheme records, and one of those two breaks off mid sentence. That is the real state of the paperwork, and it is the reason this page is short.
The order the stages run in
| Stage | What happens | What our documents show |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Declaration of intention | The authority formally announces it intends to make a scheme over a defined area. | Recorded once, for scheme 3, on 5 January 2012. |
| 2. Draft scheme prepared and published | The scheme is drawn up and published so owners can see it and object. Published under section 48(1) of the 1976 Act. | Two records reached us at this stage, schemes 1 and 3. |
| 3. Draft submitted to the Apex Authority | The draft goes up to the body with power to sanction it. | Scheme 1 on 15 September 2012, scheme 3 on 13 December 2012. |
| 4. Sanction | The Apex Authority sanctions the draft scheme, with or without modifications, and appoints a Town Planning Officer. | Documented once, for scheme 3, in the order of 24 October 2013. |
| 5. Publication in the gazette | The order is printed in the Gujarat Government Gazette. Until then it is not properly published. | Scheme 1's page is in the gazette of 11 October 2012. Scheme 3 was directed to be published on 24 October 2013. |
| 6. Preliminary scheme | The scheme is sanctioned and can be acted on while final valuations and accounts are settled. | The two extra sheets, 2/A and 4/A, describe themselves as being at this stage. |
| 7. Final scheme | The last stage, when the accounts and the plot register are settled. | no document we hold records any Dholera scheme reaching this stage |
The one complete sanction we hold
Scheme 3 is the only Dholera scheme in our documents with a full signed sanction from beginning to end. It is worth reading closely, because everything anybody says about how Dholera land pooling works traces back to this single order.
| Field | What the order says |
|---|---|
| Signed by | (A. K. Sharma), Chief Executive Officer to the Apex Authority of SIR & CEO of Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board |
| Issuing body | Special Investment Region (Apex Authority), Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, Block No. 18, 8th Floor, Udyog Bhavan, Sector-11, Gandhinagar |
| Acts and sections cited | Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009, sections 15(3)(iii), 17(1), 17(3), 6(2)(iv), 17(2); Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, sections 41(1), 42(1), 48(1), 48(2) |
| Declaration of intention | 5 January 2012 |
| Draft submitted to the Apex Authority | 13 December 2012 |
| Order number | SIRAA/06/2013/439 |
| Order date | 24 October 2013 |
| Publication instruction | to be published in Part IV central Section, Gujarat Government Extra Ordinary Gazette of Dated 24/10/2013 |
| Classification | OFFICIAL |
The instruction this order gives about how much land to take, and what is exempt from it, is on the deduction page. The full record for the scheme is at scheme 3.
The order that stops mid sentence
The scheme 1 gazette page in our set ends part way through the operative sentence, at the words Apex Authority (GIDB) hereby. Whatever the authority did next is on a continuation page nobody supplied.
So this site does not say scheme 1 was sanctioned. It says we hold a gazette page that begins to say so and then stops. The difference between those two statements is the whole point of this site.
| Field | What the page says |
|---|---|
| Issuing body | Special Investment Region - Apex Authority, Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board, Block No. 18, 8th Floor, Udyog Bhavan, Sector-11, Gandhinagar |
| Acts and sections cited | The Gujarat Special Investment Region Act, 2009, sections 15(3)(iii), 17(1), 17(3), 6(2)(iv), 17(2); Gujarat Town Planning and Urban Development Act, 1976, sections 42(1), 48(1), 48(2) |
| Gazette | The Gujarat Government Gazette, Extraordinary, Part IV-C, Vol. LIII, Extra No. 323, Thursday, October 11, 2012 / Asvina 19, 1934 |
| Gazette date | 11 October 2012 |
| Draft submitted to the Apex Authority | 15 September 2012 |
| Signed by | the page ends before any signature |
| Sanction wording | the sentence breaks off at the words Apex Authority (GIDB) hereby |
notif_dtps1.pdf is a single gazette page that ends mid-sentence at 'Apex Authority (GIDB) hereby.' The operative sanctioning clause is on a continuation page (gazette folio 323-2) which is not present in the supplied file, so no sanction is asserted here for Scheme 1.
Where all eight schemes stand
| Stage | How many | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| draft | 1 | 1 |
| no stage stated | 4 | 2, 4, 5, 6 |
| preliminary | 2 | 2/A, 4/A |
| sanctioned draft | 1 | 3 |
Half of the eight have no stage stated at all. That is not an oversight in our reading: those four exist in our documents purely as a row in the Development Plan's table, with no scheme drawing and no order behind them.
Other questions answered here
- 01What do the words on a scheme sheet actually mean?Every term used on these documents, in one sentence of plain English, with the document that carries it.
- 02My village is in a scheme. Is all of it in?Every scheme sheet says part villages. What that means, and why no document says how much of your village is inside.
- 03What is a survey number, and how many does my village have?The unit the whole record is counted in, and all 14,574 of them across the twenty two villages.
- 04Which land is left out of the deduction?Ponds, grazing land, temples and burial grounds are named as exceptions. One pond is named by its survey number.