{
 "site": "dholera.blog",
 "url": "https://dholera.blog/essays/dholera-lothal-corridor/",
 "title": "Lothal and Dholera: what a Harappan dock does for a fab city",
 "author": "Bhavik Sarkhedi",
 "date": "2026-08-03",
 "primary_query": "lothal dholera",
 "verdict": "The Lothal connection is real geography and a real line item in an approved railway, and it is not an economic engine. Heritage tourism supplements a working city, it does not build one: the only tourism-anchored case in my eighteen-city index is the second weakest in the sample. Dated 3 August 2026.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "PIB: semi-high-speed rail approval",
   "url": "https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2260624"
  },
  {
   "label": "Rail approval, dated record",
   "url": "https://dholerasir.news/wire/ahmedabad-dholera-semi-high-speed-rail-approved/"
  },
  {
   "label": "NICDC DMU report, 30.06.2026",
   "url": "https://api.nicdc.in/upload/image/dmu-Report.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Dholera SIR official: about",
   "url": "https://dholera.gujarat.gov.in/about_us"
  },
  {
   "label": "The Greenfield Index: the full interactive board",
   "url": "https://dholera.blog/index/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Sarkhedi (2026), Why Greenfield Cities Succeed or Fail, preprint, free download",
   "url": "https://dholera.blog/library/"
  },
  {
   "label": "GUJRERA portal",
   "url": "https://gujrera.gujarat.gov.in"
  }
 ],
 "license": "Quote freely with attribution and date."
}