Irrigated land, and why almost none of it is here
Why only one Dholera village has an irrigated land rate
The rate book prices farm land twice over: once as irrigated, meaning it has a water source, and once as unirrigated, meaning it depends on rain. Irrigated land is worth more and the book says so. Across the whole Dholera region, exactly one village carries an irrigated rate, and that single fact tells you a great deal about the land you are being sold.
The question this page answersWhich Dholera villages have an irrigated land rate in the jantri?
Only Mundi. It carries 51 irrigated lines running from INR 158 to INR 210 per square metre. Every other line in every other Dholera village is unirrigated, 802 of them, running from INR 26 to INR 338. Inside Mundi the irrigated lines are worth more than its own unirrigated ones at every point of the range.
Every rate here comes from one rate book, headed ASR - 2011 Final, which has been in force since 18 April 2011. These are 2011 figures. A revision was proposed later and then held back after objections, and we hold no government document for it, so we print no figure for it. Check the rate in force today with the Gujarat Revenue Department before you sign anything, and never read a 2011 figure as a 2026 market price.
Irrigated against unirrigated, where both exist
One village in twenty two, and a gap worth understanding.
| # | Land class | Linesprinted | LowestINR per sq m | MiddleINR per sq m | HighestINR per sq m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Irrigated land, in Mundi only | 51 | 158 | 173† | 210 |
| 2 | Unirrigated land, all 19 priced villages | 802 | 26 | 108† | 338 |
| 3 | Irrigated land in Mundi against unirrigated land in Mundi | 105 | 158 vs 85 | 173 vs 174 | 210 vs 210 |
Source Annual Statement of Rates, edition ASR 2011 Final, agricultural land, Ahmedabad district. Issued by the Superintendent of Stamps, Gandhinagar, Gujarat State. In force under the Revenue Department resolution dated 18 April 2011. Read positionally from the rate book AHMEDABAD-AGRI.pdf, 1,431 pages; the ASR page number is printed on every row.
Status OFFICIAL. Last verified: 2026-08-04.
- Irrigated is the book's Piyat class and unirrigated is Bin-Piyat. Both labels are printed in Gujarati and are transcribed on the terms page.
- The irrigated column is blank for every other Dholera village, and for most of the taluka. That blank is the document's, not a gap in our reading: the same parser finds irrigated rates in 16 villages elsewhere in the same taluka.
- Figures marked † were worked out by us from the printed lines. They are not printed in the rate book itself, and the arithmetic is named next to each one.
What the blank column actually means
Two columns are printed on every page of the book and stay blank on every Dholera page: waste land and mineral bearing land. Irrigated land is blank on all but one.
Every page of this rate book prints an irrigated column. On the Dholera pages, apart from Mundi, that column is empty. We report the empty column rather than skip over it, because an empty cell in a government document is itself a finding.
It is not a reading failure. The same extraction finds irrigated rates in 16 villages elsewhere in Dhandhuka taluka and 408 irrigated lines across the taluka as a whole. Where the column is blank on a Dholera page, the book is silent about irrigated land in that village. It does not say there is none, and neither do we.
The practical point for a buyer is narrow and worth stating. If a seller describes farm land in a Dholera village other than Mundi as irrigated, the 2011 rate book carries no rate for that description in that village, so the number they quote cannot have come from here.