Global Investors Evince Interest In Dholera SIR

Ahmedabad: Global investors and NRIs mainly from the US, Singapore and the UK, have shown interest in Gujarat’s Dholera Special Investment Region, a planned smart city under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and is emerging as a semiconductor hub in the State, according to a developer. Recent months have seen a rise in investor visits and land inquiries, fueled by Dholera’s vision to become India’s semiconductor hub with four of the five semiconductor plants in India being built in Dholera, Aaiji Group Founder and Managing Director Lalit Parihar said.

Among fresh proposals, NextGen has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gujarat government at Gujarat SemiConnect Conference 2025 for setting up a Rs10,000-crore compound semiconductor fab and optoelectronics facility at Dholera. A tripartite agreement was inked between Tata Electronics, Taiwanese firms PSMC and Himax Technologies for an upcoming semiconductor chip manufacturing facility of the Indian company at Dholera, he said. Tata Electronics is setting up a Rs91,000 crore semiconductor project at the Dholera SIR.