Subsidy consultant for Sanand GIDC, Changodar, Vatva–Naroda, Kadi and Dholera SIR

Industrial estates in the Ahmedabad belt: talukas, categories and DISCOM

Three things fixed by the plot decide what a unit here earns: the taluka’s category under the Viksit Gujarat Industrial Policy 2026 — Ahmedabad City, Daskroi, Sanand, Bavla, Dholka, Viramgam and Mandal (Ahmedabad); Kadi, Mehsana, Unjha, Vijapur and Visnagar (Mehsana); Kalol, Gandhinagar, Dehgam and Mansa (Gandhinagar) are Category B; Dholera, Detroj-Rampura and Dhandhuka (Ahmedabad) and Becharaji, Jotana, Kheralu, Satlasana and Vadnagar (Mehsana) are Category A — the DISCOM that bills the power, and the offices that handle the file. The estates and their talukas are below; Sanand GIDC has a page of its own.

Districts

Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Mehsana

DISCOM

Torrent Power in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar cities and in Dholera SIR; UGVCL (Uttar Gujarat Vij Company) for Sanand, Changodar, Bavla, Kadi, Mehsana and Becharaji

DGFT (EPCG)

Regional Authority Ahmedabad — Gujarat outside the Rajkot, Vadodara and Surat jurisdictions, so Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, north Gujarat and Kutch

Customs (MOOWR)

Air cargo through the SVPI airport complex and the ICDs around the city, sea cargo through Mundra, Pipavav or Hazira; the MOOWR licence is issued by the Principal Commissioner of Customs, Ahmedabad, whose jurisdiction covers the belt

Sanctioning offices

District Industries Centres at Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Mehsana for MSME claims (Sanand, Changodar and Bavla fall under Ahmedabad); Industries Commissionerate, Gandhinagar, for Large, Mega and Ultra Mega units

Categories are as listed in the annexure to the taluka GR of 8 September 2026 (IMD/HMR/e-file/9/2026/2211/I). Several talukas were newly created when the list was drawn up and can differ from their neighbours, so we confirm the category in writing before you file.

What a unit in the Ahmedabad belt earns under VGIP 2026

The table reads the three VGIP 2026 GRs for the talukas of the Ahmedabad belt. The first column is where most plots in the belt fall; the Large columns are the general-sector and thrust-sector matrices of the GR of 8 September 2026 (chemicals, textiles, capital equipment, mobility, healthcare and the other thrust sectors are listed in its Annexure-A). Electricity duty exemption and EPF reimbursement are statutory and sit outside the ceiling in every column.

Which incentives apply in the Ahmedabad belt

The same package applies in every belt of Gujarat; what the belt sets is the rate (by taluka category), the DISCOM whose bills carry the power tariff subsidy and the electricity duty, and the customs and DGFT offices that take the MOOWR and EPCG files. For the Ahmedabad belt that means Category B rates on the estates and Category A at Dholera and Becharaji, Torrent Power’s or UGVCL’s bills as the claim documents, and Regional Authority Ahmedabad for EPCG.

What the Ahmedabad belt makes, and the schemes that fit

A chemical plant’s money is in its power bill; an engineering unit’s in its machinery and its loan; a labour-intensive plant’s in its EPF. The belt’s main sectors and the components that matter most for each:

Worked example: an auto-component MSME at Sanand

A supplier setting up at Sanand GIDC with ₹8 crore of eligible investment, a ₹4.5 crore term loan and a 500 kW connection. Sanand is Category B, so the MSME matrix reads 25%, 7% and ₹1 a unit, with a 35% combined ceiling.

Figures are illustrative and rounded; the GR’s eligible fixed capital investment excludes land, working capital and second-hand machinery, and the interest subsidy runs only on the term loan actually disbursed. Our capital subsidy worked example, interest subsidy worked example and power tariff subsidy worked example walk through each component year by year, and the Gujarat subsidy calculator applies the right category to any taluka in the belt.

How a claim runs for a unit in the Ahmedabad belt

Every file in the Ahmedabad belt passes through the same offices: the District Industries Centres at Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Mehsana for MSME claims, the Industries Commissionerate in Gandhinagar for Large units and above, CEICED online for the electricity duty exemption, Regional Authority Ahmedabad for EPCG and the jurisdictional Customs Commissionerate for MOOWR. We prepare, file and follow each one.

1. Fix the category and the dates

   We read the plot’s taluka from the land record, confirm its category in writing, and set the project’s dates: investment counted from 1 January 2026, the date of commercial production, and the first deadline that follows from it.

   Before you spend

2. Register where the size requires it

   Large, Mega and Ultra Mega units register with the Industries Commissionerate before production or by 8 December 2026, whichever is later; MSMEs need no registration step but apply for the provisional or final eligibility certificate within six months of the date of commercial production.

   Before production

3. File the statutory and central applications on their own clocks

   The electricity duty exemption online to CEICED within 90 days of production; the MOOWR application to the jurisdictional Customs Commissionerate before the first bonded import; EPCG at Regional Authority Ahmedabad before the machinery lands.

   To each scheme’s clock

4. Claim with the sanctioning office

   The District Industries Centres at Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Mehsana takes the MSME claims for capital, interest and power tariff subsidy, the quarterly EPF claims and the connection refund; the Industries Commissionerate takes the Large claims. Queries and asset verification are answered on site.

5. Follow every instalment

   Annual instalments over five years for small and medium units, quarterly EPF, MOOWR returns, and the DISCOM’s refund of duty paid before the exemption certificate — tracked until the money is in the account.

The dates that decide a claim in the Ahmedabad belt

Four dates do most of the work in a VGIP 2026 claim, and all four are fixed by the GRs rather than by the estate. Investment counts from 1 January 2026; Large, Mega and Ultra Mega units must be registered before production or by 8 December 2026, whichever is later (see our note on the 8 December 2026 registration deadline); the electricity duty exemption is applied for within 90 days of the first production; and commercial production must start before the operative period ends on 31 May 2031.

1. 1 Jan 2026Assets bought and paid for from this date count as eligible investment
2. 8 Dec 2026Registration deadline for Large, Mega and Ultra Mega units, or before production if later
3. 90 daysAfter production starts: electricity duty exemption application to CEICED
4. 31 May 2031The operative period ends; production must start within it

MSMEs apply for the provisional eligibility certificate within six months of the date of commercial production or of 25 September 2026, whichever is later; a late application within two years is accepted with the incentive reduced in proportion to the delay. The power connection refund is claimed within six months of paying the DISCOM’s charges; EPCG is authorised before the machinery is imported; a MOOWR licence is in place before the first bonded consignment.

The Ahmedabad belt: questions we get asked

Legal basis and official sources

Every rate on this page is the published term of the scheme it links to, read from the GRs and the Act; the taluka categories come from the taluka GR’s annexure.