How the score is worked out, and what it cannot tell you

The five things the score counts

Five criteria, 100 points between them. Every one is a field GujRERA publishes, and not one of them is an opinion about a company. If a criterion cannot be worked out for a particular project, its points are taken out of that project's total rather than guessed at, the score is expressed against the smaller total, and the smaller total is printed next to the number so you can see it happened.

• Register Standing Score. A mark out of 100 that this site works out for every project from five things the government already publishes: whether the record names Dholera, how many quarterly reports were filed, whether the completion date declared at registration has passed, how many complaint entries are on the public ledger, and how many other projects the promoter has registered. It measures paperwork. It says nothing about build quality or about price.

One bias in this score is built in and worth saying out loud, because you can see it in the results. The third criterion rewards a completion date that has not yet arrived, so a project registered last year almost always beats one registered in 2021 on that criterion, whatever either has actually built. Read the score for what it is: how a project's paperwork stands on this date. It is not a measure of build quality, of whether the project will finish, of price, or of whether buying there is a good idea. That argument is set out at length on what a high score here does not mean.

How 33 projects were picked out of 5,435

Full Ahmedabad district registered-project list pulled from the GujRERA dashboard API (5,435 projects), then filtered for Dholera evidence. Cross-checked against 24 live global-search queries; the search union added zero Dholera projects the district list did not already contain.

Inclusion rule. A project is included only if its own GujRERA record carries Dholera evidence: taluka segment DHOLERA in the registration number, authority segment DSIRDA, approvingAuthority naming the Dholera Special Investment Region Development Authority, subDistName Dholera, a moje/village inside the DSIRDA boundary, or the literal string DHOLERA in the registered name or address. Every matched criterion is written into dholera_evidence.

The 22 village names inside the DSIRDA boundary, taken from the official DSIRDA village map, are: Gorasu, Panchi, Otariya, Mundi, Mingalpur, Bhimtalav, Cher, Dholera, Gogla, Bhangadh, Mahadevpura, Bhadiyad, Khun, Sodhi, Bavaliyari, Kadipur, Sangasar, Ambali, Hebatpur, Sandhida, Rahtalav, Zankhi.

Why similar company names are not added together

GujRERA does not give each builder a company number, only a name typed onto each project record. So this site groups projects by the exact name string, letter for letter, and joins nothing up. Two names that look like the same firm are kept apart, because deciding they are one company would be a claim about corporate ownership that the public record does not make.

That choice changes the counts, so here is the effect in the open. If 7 OAK DEVELOPERS and 7 OAK DEVELOPERS PRIVATE LIMITED were treated as one company, that name would hold five registrations instead of four and one. A builder who can show that two names are the same legal entity can have them merged, using the correction route further down this page, and the merge is written into the changes log. All five pairs are set out, with what merging each one would change, on the similar names page.

What this data does not contain

Ten gaps are recorded in the dataset itself and reprinted here word for word. A register that hides its holes is worth less than one that prints them, and every one of these limits how far you should push a conclusion.

• project_area (totAreaOfLand) is null on the GujRERA record for 10 of 33 projects, all of them DSIRDA-era registrations. This is not a scrape failure: the GujRERA project page itself renders 'Project Land Area:- Sq Mtrs' with no number for these. The same records do carry totAreaOfLandLayout and totLandAreaForProjectUnderReg, emitted as separate fields rather than substituted in.
• village (moje) is null on the GujRERA record for many pre-2023 registrations
• GujRERA has no per-project HTML page with a stable path. The public record is an Angular single-page app; the deep link emitted in gujrera_detail_page_url ('#/project-preview?id=<base64 projectRegId>') was read out of the app bundle and verified in a live browser against project 11091 (7 OAK SMART CITY). It is not a documented government URL scheme and could change without notice; gujrera_detail_api_url is the stable machine-readable fallback.
• Per-project complaint DETAIL (allegation text, orders, hearing record) is behind login: complain/secure/getby-projectId/{id} returns {"Error":"Invalid Request"} without a session token. Only complaint number, status and dates are public, via projectAllApplications.
• The gujrera_detail_page_url deep link needs a FRESH page load. The Angular component reads ?id= only in its constructor, so changing the hash inside an already-open GujRERA tab will keep showing the previous project. Opening the link in a new tab, or a hard reload, resolves it correctly (verified on projects 11091 and 30155).
• 3 projects are included at dholera_evidence_tier=INFERRED: their GujRERA record cites a Dholera SIR town-planning scheme and a Dhandhuka taluka, but the record never says 'Dholera' and names no DSIRDA village. Treat them as unconfirmed.
• registration_date is the GujRERA approval date (approvedOn / Registration.approvalDate). GujRERA publishes no separate 'certificate issue date'.
• project_status on the registration record is promoter-declared at registration time ('New'/'Ongoing') and is NOT a live construction status. Live progress is in qpr_filings and in the per-block progress percentages on the portal page.
• The dataset covers Ahmedabad district only. Bhavnagar district (which borders Dholera SIR) was pulled in full (719 projects) and returned zero Dholera/DSIRDA matches.
• Projects that were never registered, or whose registration lapsed and was purged from the district dashboard, cannot appear. GujRERA publishes no 'lapsed/deregistered' public list keyed to district.

These notes are reproduced verbatim from the dataset, with one exception: a stray extraction artefact inside the word "record" in the fourth note has been corrected. Nothing else in them has been edited.

What the four stamps mean

Small stamps appear beside rows across this site. Each one is a shape as well as a label, solid against outlined against dashed, so the meaning survives a black and white printout, a photocopy and every kind of colour blindness. Colour never carries the meaning on its own. There are four, and each reports a real field on the government record.

• OfficialThe GujRERA record itself names Dholera, a DSIRDA village, or DSIRDA as the approving authority. 30 of 33 entries.
• InferredThe record cites a Dholera SIR town planning scheme in a Dhandhuka taluka address but never says Dholera. Treat as unconfirmed. 3 of 33 entries.
• Date aheadThe completion date declared at registration falls on or after 4 August 2026. 16 of 33 entries.
• Date elapsedThe declared completion date has passed. It is a statement about a date, not about a building. 17 of 33 entries.

How to tell us we are wrong

If a figure here differs from the GujRERA record, the GujRERA record is right and this site is wrong. Write to corrections@dholera-realestate.com with the registration number and which field is off. Anything we can confirm against the government record gets fixed and written up on the changes page, with the date and what changed.

Three things will not move a rank: asking to be moved up, offering to pay, and asking to be taken off a list built from public records. Nothing on this site is for sale, including a position on it.

Who publishes this, and how it is made

Published by Bhavik Sarkhedi, ORCID 0009-0005-8094-0688. Data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), so it can be reused with attribution. Source records belong to GujRERA. This site is independent of GujRERA, of DSIRDA and of every promoter named on it.

The site is typeset in Bitter for display, Source Sans 3 for body text and Anonymous Pro for every number, registration number and label. All three are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and are self hosted as woff2 latin subsets. No font is loaded from a content delivery network and no third party script runs on any page.

Four colours are authored and no fifth exists anywhere in the stylesheet: a near-white sheet, a near-black ink, one registry green and one muted neutral. The green is spent on four things only, the rule at the head of every page, the section numbers, the rank numerals and the verification links out to GujRERA, so a reader learns in one page that green on this site means rank or verified. Every other tone in the file is that same ink laid over the sheet at a stated transparency. There is no tinted panel, no gradient, no shadow and no photograph on any page.