MARKET FOCUS
Dholera will focus on (but is not limited to) the following industries:
MARKET FOCUS
- Defence
- Manufacturing
- Heavy Engineering
- Auto & Auto Ancillaries
- Pharma & Bio Tech (Formulation)
- Electronics
- Agro and Food Processing (no farming considered)
MARKET POTENTIAL
- Dholera offers large contiguous land parcels suitable for establishing a defense eco-system including but not limited to Manufacturing, Research & Development, Vendor Parks, Logistics & availability of skilled workforce.
- Gujarat has approximately 101 engineering colleges with a capacity of 46,639 seats. Major institutes include IIT, Nirma University, LD Engineering College, Gujarat university, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT and others. The skilled work force required for industrial development is easily available in Gujarat. Manufacturing
- Gujarat is a thriving Auto & Engineering hub that can potentially contribute to the defence supply chain. Major hubs for Auto and Engineering are in Ahmedabad (100 KM) and Rajkot (175 KM).
- A strong MSME sector already exists in Gujarat, which plays an important role in the Defence Manufacturing supply chain.
- Gujarat offers an established port sector.
- Gujarat also offers excellent technical education.
- Indian electronics market is expected to increase at CAGR of 8.1% between FY16 and FY22.
- While consumer durables market is expected to increase at a CAGR of 16.3% between FY15 and FY20.
- In Gujarat, between 2004 and 2013, the GSDP for agriculture sector including animal husbandry sector had increased from USD 4.5 billion, at constant 2004-05 prices.
- In Gujarat, there are 3339 pharma manufacturing units (as of March, 2014) including allopathic, Ayurvedic, cosmetic, homeopathy units.
- Pharma exports from Gujarat increased from USD 0.2 billion to USD 2.8 billion between 2004 and 2013. Formulation formed 40% of the exports while the rest was bulk drugs.