Pratapsinh Chudasama (44) has seen most of his friends gradually migrate to bigger cities as he continues to man a shop in Dholera, a town that has long been identified with the Narendra Modi government’s development agenda. There are others who’ve stayed back like retired primary school principal and farmer Bhaubhai Mer (68), while his sons have moved on.
On how the ambitious project — Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) — has progressed over the years some 110 km away from Ahmedabad, Chudasama says, “some construction activity has begun a few kilometres away from here. Officers also come in cars