Dabhol Power, tourist hotspot

The Dabhol Power Company (DPC) as a tourist destination? This is the suggestion from politicians cutting across party lines in Maharashtra as well as state officials, following discussions over the fate of this eternally troubled project that closed indefinitely last week for want of gas. DPC, once owned by the infamous Enron Corporation, was taken over by a consortium of Indian banks, financial institutions and public sector companies in 2006. Located on a sprawling 1,500 hectare site on the edge of the Arabian Sea, the plant site checks all the tourist boxes: beaches and jungles. If the non-availability of gas continues, the state, the major buyer of power from the plant, will at least make some revenue through tourism, the reasoning goes.