People quote Dholera contract values as though they all mean the same thing. They do not. Out of eleven awards, exactly one carries a figure the annual report itself calls a contract amount. That is the ABCD Building, printed as 72,31,11,111 rupees, which works out at Rs. 72.31 crore.
Every other figure is something else: a total project cost, an investor's own promise about what it will spend, or a fee flowing towards DICDL rather than away from it. This page shows what each report actually says, word for word, so you can judge for yourself.
ABCD Building, AR 2024-25 p.100
AR 2024-25 pp.22 to 29
Excluded from every total on this site
Nothing has been back solved
Every figure, quoted exactly as printed
What each annual report actually prints against each Dholera award, and what kind of number it is. Source: DICDL annual reports
| No.Item | Work | Exactly what the report prints | What kind of figure it is | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Integrated Healthcare Facility | ₹133.68 Crore | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
| 02 | Food Court | ₹17.47 Crore | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
| 03 | Integrated School | ₹27.99 Crore | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
| 04 | Accommodation Facilities for Investors | ₹26.72 Crore | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
| 05 | Fire Station | ₹20.12 Crore | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
| 06 | Tent City | ₹1.55 Crore (management fees receivable BY DICDL) | A fee coming the other way | money DICDL receives, not money it pays |
| 07 | ABCD Building | 72,31,11,111/- | A contract amount | the only figure in the whole dataset the report calls a contract amount |
| 08 | Water Treatment Plant | nothing printed | Nothing at all | no value is published in either annual report |
| 09 | Residential and Commercial Mixed-Use Development | approximately ₹2,000 Crore (total investment by the awardee) | An investor's own pledge | money the buyer of the plot says it will spend |
| 10 | Corporate 3-Star Hotel | approximately Rs. 35 Crore (total investment by the awardee) | An investor's own pledge | money the buyer of the plot says it will spend |
| 11 | Service Area Building | Rs. 46.21 Cr. | A total project cost | printed under the project heading, never called a bid or an award amount |
Source: DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (audited, signed 2025-08-22), pages 22 to 29 for the project pages and page 100 for the ABCD Building contract amount. The rupee symbol and the wording are reproduced as the source prints them. All rows last verified 2026-08-04 against the cited page.
Why one number is not like the others
A contract amount and a project cost are different promises
A contract amount is what a client has agreed to pay a named firm. A project cost is what the whole project is expected to cost the client, which can include land, fees, consultants and contingency on top of what the builder gets. The DICDL annual report gives each of its social infrastructure projects a page, and on those pages the money is introduced under a project heading without being called a bid, an award value or a contract amount.
That wording is preserved here instead of being tidied up. It means the Rs. 344.50 crore total that appears elsewhere on this site is a total of seven comparable figures and nothing more. It is not what Dholera has cost, and it is not what the state has spent.
The one figure that had to be converted
The ABCD Building is printed in Indian digit grouping as 72,31,11,111 rupees. That is seventy two crore, thirty one lakh, eleven thousand, one hundred and eleven rupees. Converted at one crore to ten million rupees it becomes 72.3111111 crore, which this site rounds to 72.31 in tables and keeps in full in the downloadable data.
Sources: DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (audited, signed 2025-08-22), pages 22 to 29 and page 100; DICDL 8th Annual Report 2023-24 (audited, signed 2024-09-09) for the comparative wording. Unit: INR crore as printed. Tag: OFFICIAL.
The two figures that point the wrong way
Money coming in is not money going out
Two of the eleven awards are plots sold at auction. For those, the report records roughly Rs. 2,000 crore against the mixed use development and roughly Rs. 35 crore against the corporate hotel. Both are described as investment by the awardee, and both carry the word approximately in the source. That is a buyer telling the world what it plans to spend on its own plot. It is not a payment by DICDL and it does not belong in a total of contract values.
Tent City points the wrong way for a different reason. The only money disclosed against it is Rs. 1.55 crore of management fees receivable by DICDL under a ten year public private partnership. Recording that as an award value would reverse the direction of the payment, so the value cell on this site stays blank and the fee is described in words instead.
How each of these routes works is set out on how a contract gets awarded.
Source: DICDL 9th Annual Report 2024-25 (audited, signed 2025-08-22), pages 27, 28 and 29. Both plot figures are stated as approximate in the source and are excluded from every total published here.