In August 2019, Counterview reported that parts of the Dholera SIR site were inundated, and criticised the state for marketing low-lying areas as prime smart-city land while the site remained flood-prone.
Why it matters to Dholera: the site is genuinely low-lying and historically flood-exposed — that is a fact of geography, and the engineering answer (master storm-water drainage, raised platforms, the pump systems in the trunk plan) is part of the project’s design. This entry stays on the record because honest coverage of the challenge is what separates documentation from promotion.
What came next: drainage and level-raising works inside the activation area, and the monsoon-performance record that Ch. 6 continues to track.
Verified sources
This is an archive entry from our milestone backfill — verified against the sources below, with the event date kept true to history.