Land
What the land is actually used for
Before anyone talks about what this land will become, here is what the last national survey recorded it as being: sown, fallow, grazed, barren or built on, in hectares, for each of the 22 villages.
Census of India 2011, Village Directory, land use columns.
Mostly saline flat in this belt.
Six villages carry the whole forest total between them.
Farmland first, and a lot of it barren
The census sorts every hectare, which is 10,000 square metres or about two and a half acres of a village into nine classes. Across the 22 villages the largest class by a distance is land that was actually sown, at 51 per cent of the total. The second largest is barren land that cannot be cultivated, which in this coastal belt usually means saline flats.
That combination is the physical fact underneath everything else on this site. It is farming country with a salt problem, which is why so little of it is irrigated and why the water pages read the way they do.
How the land of the 22 villages is classified, in hectaresCensus of India 2011, Village Directory, land use columns 379 to 387. Same survey, same 2009 reference year as the amenity columns.
| Class of land | Hectares | Share | Villages with any |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest | 324.68 | 0.4% | 6 |
| Built on or otherwise not farmed | 6,706.79 | 7.4% | 21 |
| Barren, cannot be cultivated | 18,005.57 | 19.8% | 12 |
| Permanent pasture and grazing | 1,271.76 | 1.4% | 18 |
| Tree crops and groves | 85.80 | 0.1% | 2 |
| Cultivable but lying waste | 4,588.75 | 5.0% | 8 |
| Long fallow | 2,558.88 | 2.8% | 8 |
| Fallow this season | 11,012.20 | 12.1% | 9 |
| Actually sown | 46,365.87 | 51.0% | 22 |
| All nine classes | 90,920.30 | 100.0% | 22 |
Where this comes from: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, District Census Handbook, Village Directory, Gujarat (state code 24), sheet Village_Data_2400, 396 columns. Census year 2011, amenity reference year 2009.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.
What this table cannot tell you It cannot be reconciled against the notified area of the region, and we have not tried. The census land use total and the 2009 notification area are two different measurements of two different things, taken by two different offices, and averaging them would produce a number that is true of nothing.
Village by village
Village by village, in hectaresCensus of India 2011, Village Directory. Hectare columns are printed exactly as found and were not rounded or reconciled.
| Village | Total area | Sown | Share sown | Barren | Not farmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambli | 5,560.78 | 2,983.91 | 54% | 0.00 | 35.74 |
| Bavaliyari | 14,171.17 | 5,714.84 | 40% | 8,114.66 | 293.71 |
| Bhadiyad | 4,970.26 | 4,297.19 | 86% | 0.00 | 255.46 |
| Bhangadh | 8,307.76 | 1,648.07 | 20% | 0.00 | 2,638.15 |
| Bhimtalav | 761.43 | 468.02 | 61% | 0.00 | 36.71 |
| Cher | 1,634.28 | 1,402.30 | 86% | 121.69 | 9.32 |
| Dholera | 4,581.36 | 1,965.74 | 43% | 49.20 | 318.76 |
| Gogla | 5,544.16 | 2,004.66 | 36% | 0.00 | 135.69 |
| Gorasu | 3,117.67 | 2,933.50 | 94% | 98.61 | 0.00 |
| Hebatpur | 7,258.51 | 4,596.60 | 63% | 0.00 | 987.50 |
| Kadipur | 2,851.04 | 1,357.93 | 48% | 861.88 | 3.00 |
| Khun | 3,830.61 | 576.78 | 15% | 3,048.65 | 124.25 |
| Mahadevpura | 2,254.32 | 1,040.47 | 46% | 0.00 | 5.00 |
| Mingalpur | 3,308.13 | 1,933.78 | 58% | 781.00 | 2.00 |
| Mundi | 1,780.54 | 1,589.06 | 89% | 53.11 | 0.81 |
| Otariya | 1,809.51 | 1,310.50 | 72% | 0.00 | 404.12 |
| Panchi | 1,417.45 | 1,142.74 | 81% | 160.32 | 5.00 |
| Rahatalav | 6,344.51 | 952.02 | 15% | 4,594.73 | 5.16 |
| Sandhida | 1,864.01 | 1,171.45 | 63% | 1.37 | 391.37 |
| Sangasar | 3,231.96 | 2,042.45 | 63% | 0.00 | 1,039.29 |
| Sodhi | 4,134.24 | 3,197.30 | 77% | 0.00 | 12.75 |
| Zankhi | 2,186.60 | 2,036.56 | 93% | 120.35 | 3.00 |
Where this comes from: Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, District Census Handbook, Village Directory, Gujarat (state code 24), sheet Village_Data_2400, 396 columns. Census year 2011, amenity reference year 2009.
Last verified: 10 August 2026.
What this table cannot tell you It cannot tell you who owns any of it, what it is worth, or what it is zoned for today. This is a survey of use in 2009, not a land record and not a price list. This site carries no rate of any kind.
What this page deliberately does not do
It does not turn hectares into money. No source used anywhere on this site carries a land rate, a price or a return, and none has been imported from anywhere else. If you want to know what land costs here, this is the wrong site, and any site that answers that question should be asked which government document it is quoting.
One warning that applies to this whole page. The census amenity columns describe 2009, not 2026. Nothing built in the Dholera region after 2009 is in them, and an absence here is not proof of an absence on the ground today. It is proof that the last national survey of these villages did not find one.
Related: How much of it is irrigated · What is grown, and what supports it · How many people live on it · All 22 villages at a glance