RIICO Sanctions ₹465 Crore for First-Phase Infrastructure at Jodhpur-Pali Marwar Industrial Area (JPMIA)

What Was Decided

On 3 August 2025, Rajasthan media reported that RIICO had moved from planning to execution on the Jodhpur-Pali Marwar Industrial Area (JPMIA). RIICO was starting development of the roughly 8,900-acre Jodhpur-Pali Marwar Industrial Area and had appointed a Project Management Consultant for ₹21 crore. Approval had been secured for ₹465 crore of the ₹922 crore budgeted for first-phase development, and the tender for this work had been issued two days earlier.

Separately, coverage of the same decision described it as the first phase covering 640 hectares developed at a cost of Rs 465 crores, on an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model.

Who Approved It and Under What Authority

RIICO (Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation) is not an ordinary industrial-estate developer here — it holds a statutory role. To implement the DMIC project, the State Government declared a 'Special Investment Region' consisting of nine revenue villages of Tehsil Rohat, District Pali, by notification dated 12 October 2020, naming it the Jodhpur-Pali-Marwar Industrial Area (JPMIA); RIICO was designated as the Regional Development Authority under Section 9(7) of the RSIR Act, 2016.

At the national level, the project sits inside the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP). In 2024 the Centre approved 12 new industrial smart city projects worth Rs 28,602 crore for trunk infrastructure, including CCEA approval for Jodhpur Pali Marwar Industrial Area alongside Dighi Port Industrial Area, Maharashtra. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister, approved these 12 project proposals. The state-level implementer, RIICO, works in partnership with the National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC) on execution.

Scope of the Sanctioned Works

The ₹465-crore tranche funds core trunk infrastructure — the brief supplied identifies this as roads, power, water and drainage — across the nine notified villages of Rohat tehsil. Those villages are confirmed in court records and land-rights reporting: Dungarpur, Singari, Dhundhali, Doodali, Neembli Patelan, Neembli Bramnan, Danasani, Rohat and Dalpatgarh.

The wider legal record confirms the same list and that all government land in these villages had already been transferred to the project authority. All Government lands of Villages Dungarpur, Singari, Dhundhali, Doodali, Neembli Patelan, Neembli Bramnan, Danasani, Rohat and Dalpatgarh have been mutated in the name of JPMIA Development Authority.

A separate report frames the same nine-village area in spatial terms: the project spans 154 sq km of jurisdiction across the nine villages of Rohat, Nimbli Brahmanan, Nimbli Patelan, Doodli, Singari, Dhundhli, Danasani, Dungarpur and Dalpatgarh in Pali district's Rohat tehsil, with 3,600 hectares of land across three phases.

Financial Structure: What ₹465 Crore Covers — and What It Doesn't

Several distinct rupee figures apply to this project and should not be conflated:

• ₹21 crore — the Project Management Consultant appointment fee, as reported alongside the sanction. RIICO appointed a Project Management Consultant for ₹21 crore.
• ₹465 crore — the amount now sanctioned for first-phase infrastructure works, out of a ₹922-crore first-phase budget. Of the total ₹922 crore for the first phase of the roughly 8,900-acre project, works costing ₹465 crore have been sanctioned.
• ~₹3,000 crore — RIICO's own broader estimated spend on the project including land and development costs, per Patrika's report, which also notes the work will proceed in three phases.
• ₹7,500 crore — the private investment potential NICDC associates with the fully built-out JPMIA node. With 100% land in possession of the state government, JPMIA offers an investment potential of ₹7,500 crore and an employment potential of 40,000 jobs.

These are different scopes — public infrastructure sanction vs. total project cost vs. anticipated private investment — and should be read separately, not added together.

Site, Connectivity and Status of Land

The NICDC-funded node within JPMIA is described distinctly from the full notified region: JPMIA, spanning 1,578 acres, is located between Jodhpur and Pali with easy access to NH-62 and SH-64, 60 km from Marwar Junction on the Dedicated Freight Corridor and 30 km from Jodhpur Railway Station and Jodhpur International Airport. Environmental Clearance has already been obtained from the MoEF&CC.

Land assembly for the notified nine villages has largely been completed on the government-land side, though it has not been free of dispute. In 2021, villagers of Dungarpur filed a case against the transfer of 864.6148 hectares of "public utility" land — including pasture, water-catchment and sacred-grove land — to the JPMIA Development Authority. Compensation for private (khatedari) land has also been contested locally; one resident quoted in reporting said families who had lived on gauchar land for over 40 years were not rehabilitated, and "Authorities are offering us Rs 28,000 per bhigha... against the market value of 5 lakh per bhigha."

Timeline and Practical Effect

The tender for first-phase works was issued in the days immediately before the 3 August 2025 report, with execution to follow the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) model. This township will be developed on the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model. The editor's brief for this record cites a 2.5-year execution timeline for the tendered works; this has not been independently corroborated in subsequent public reporting reviewed for this page and should be treated as provisional pending a formal completion notice.

In practical terms, the sanction means physical construction — roads, power lines, water supply and drainage — can now begin in the nine villages rather than remaining at the planning/land-transfer stage, where the project sat for much of the past decade. Discussions about JPMIA started a decade ago, but it was only in October 2020 that the Pali District Collector officially transferred government land from the nine revenue villages to the JPMIA Development Authority. For investors, this first tranche of trunk infrastructure is the precondition for later land allotment in the 1,578-acre NICDC node; for residents of the nine villages, it is the point at which visible construction — and associated land-use change — begins.