Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway

Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway^[1] is a 109 km (68 mi) long, four-lane wide (expandable to eight) access-controlled under-construction expressway in Gujarat, India. It will connect Sardar Patel Ring Road near Sarkhej in Ahmedabad with Adhelai village in Bhavnagar district via Dholera Special Investment Region (DSIR). The proposed Dholera International Airport near Navagam, about 20 km (12 mi) from Dholera SIR will also lie in the route.^[2]

Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway
Route information
Maintained by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
Length	109 km (68 mi)
Existed	2024–present
Major junctions
North end	Sarkhej, Ahmedabad
South end	Adhelai, Bhavnagar
Location
Country	India
States	Gujarat
Major cities	Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar
Highway system
Roads in India Expressways National State Asian

The Ahmedabad–Dholera greenfield expressway is a part of the Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and is expected to be ready by 2024.^[3]

Construction

The NHAI has divided the construction work of Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway into four packages. Its total construction cost (excluding the cost of land) is about ₹3,196 crores.

The list of contractors is as follows:

Sr. No	Package	Length in km	Contractor
1.	Sarkhej (Ahmedabad)–Sindhrej (Ahmedabad)	22.0	Sadbhav Engineering
2.	Sindhrej (Ahmedabad)–Vejalaka (Ahmedabad)	26.5	Sadbhav Engineering
3.	Vejalaka (Ahmedabad)–Dholera SIR (Ahmedabad)	22.5	GHV India
4.	Dholera SIR (Ahmedabad)–Adhelai (Bhavnagar)	38.0	DRA Infracon

Status updates

• April 2020: Tenders floated for construction of expressway by the NHAI.^[4]
• August 2020: Tenders awarded in EPC mode to Sadbhav Engineering (Package 1 and 2), GHV India Pvt. Ltd. (Package 3) and Dineshchandra R. Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd. (Package 4).^[5]
• April 2022: Work in progress^[6]