A ghost town comes to life

  • 21/05/2006

  • Outlook (New Delhi)

DRIVING into Guhagar (Maharashtra), in the shadows of India's largest power unit, on a Monday is like entering a ghost town. Everything is shut because it is the weekly power-cut day. On other days, there's load shedding for nearly six hours. Still, in many other ways, Guhagar is returning to life. For, it is home to the Dabhol power plant, which restarted power production this month after staying shut for five years. Here, everyone has a Dabhol story