The Ministry of Environment and Forests granted green clearance to the Dholera Special Investment Region in September 2014 — a prerequisite for construction on the scale DSIRDA and DICDL were planning.
Why it matters to Dholera: environmental clearance was one of the last major regulatory gates before physical work. With it in hand, the path opened for the CCEA’s trunk-infrastructure sanction (May 2015) and the construction phase that followed.
What came next: the ₹2,784.83 crore CCEA sanction within eight months, and the activation-area works.
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