Gujarat’s Industries and Mines Department has placed all 268 talukas in the state into two bands for industrial incentives: 130 in Category A and 138 in Category B. The state made the list public on October 11, IANS reported. The government resolution behind it carries an e-signature dated September 8.
Category A covers the less-industrialised talukas and carries the higher baseline subsidies, Gujarat Samachar reported. If you plan to set up or expand a unit, the taluka tag on your plot now decides which slab of the Viksit Gujarat Industrial Policy-2026 you can claim.
The missing piece of the policy
The state announced the policy in June with effect from June 1. Its incentive tables were written around “Category A” and “Category B” talukas, but nobody had published which taluka sat where. In August, as we reported then, the Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry told the Chief Minister that investors could not price a project without the fine print. This resolution supplies a large part of it.
It also retires the old map. The 2020 policy used three bands (Category I, II and III) across 251 talukas, under a resolution dated November 2, 2020. The new list has two bands and 17 more talukas, because Gujarat has since carved out new talukas and a new district, Vav-Tharad. Several new names appear with their parent taluka in brackets, such as Hadad (Danta), Ukai (Songadh) and Nanapodha, which straddles Kaprada, Vapi and Pardi.
Where the higher tier falls
Six districts sit wholly or almost wholly in Category A. Every taluka in Dahod, Chhota Udepur, The Dangs and Botad is Category A. Narmada has only Nandod in Category B, and Tapi has only Vyara and Valod.
The big cities and their industrial belts land in Category B: Ahmedabad City, Sanand, Surat City, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar and Bhuj, along with Mundra, Gandhidham and Anjar in Kutch. Gandhinagar district has no Category A taluka.
Within the big districts, the Category A talukas sit at the margins. Three Ahmedabad talukas are Category A: Dholera, Dhandhuka and Detroj-Rampura. Dholera already hosts a special investment region and Tata’s semiconductor fab project, so the state’s flagship greenfield site also gets the richer tier. In Rajkot, only Vinchhiya and Jamkandorna qualify. Vadodara has Sinor and Desar. Kutch has Rapar, Nakhatrana, Lakhpat and Mandvi. Mehsana’s Becharaji and Vadnagar are Category A too.
What to check before you file
- Read the district, not just the taluka name. Mandvi in Kutch is Category A, while Mandvi in Surat is Category B. Mahuva flips the other way: Category A in Surat, Category B in Bhavnagar.
- The tier caps what you can claim. The resolution states that each scheme’s own eligibility rules still govern the final package. Our July explainer sets out the published slabs for each tier.
- MSMEs gain most from the clarity. A small manufacturer in Dahod or Botad can now count on the top slab when talking to a bank. A unit on the edge of Ahmedabad or Surat should plan on the lower one.
What to watch
The state wants factories to spread beyond the Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat corridor. Subsidy gaps help, but power, water, roads and skilled labour usually decide where a plant goes. Dholera tests that idea at scale. Dahod and The Dangs test it from the other end. The next signal will come from approvals: the state’s incentive sanctions under the new policy will show whether Category A talukas attract projects in any number, or whether investment keeps clustering in Category B belts that already have the infrastructure.
Sources: Industries and Mines Department resolution (via iNDEXTb), Gujarat Samachar, IANS via SocialNews
This report was compiled and written with AI assistance from publicly reported sources, and reviewed for accuracy.