{
 "site": "dholera.blog",
 "url": "https://dholera.blog/essays/dholera-metro-and-monorail-confusion/",
 "title": "The Dholera Metro Question: What Is Approved, What Is Not",
 "author": "Bhavik Sarkhedi",
 "date": "2026-08-03",
 "primary_query": "dholera metro",
 "verdict": "No metro or monorail serving Dholera holds a sanction with a cost and an executing agency that I can source in August 2026. What exists is a reserved corridor in the sanctioned plan, a draft monorail report reported approved by the state in 2021, and one real approval: the CCEA line of 13 May 2026. Dated 25 August 2026.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "PIB: semi-high-speed rail approval",
   "url": "https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2260624"
  },
  {
   "label": "PIB (ISM / fab records)",
   "url": "https://pib.gov.in"
  },
  {
   "label": "DSIRDA sanctioned development plan",
   "url": "https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/finaldp/15"
  },
  {
   "label": "Dholera SIR official: about",
   "url": "https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/about_us"
  },
  {
   "label": "NICDC DMU report, 30.06.2026",
   "url": "https://api.nicdc.in/upload/image/dmu-Report.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Rail approval, dated record",
   "url": "https://dholerasir.news/wire/ahmedabad-dholera-semi-high-speed-rail-approved/"
  }
 ],
 "license": "Quote freely with attribution and date."
}