Dabhol Finally Suspends Work

Bechtel and General Electric, contractors to the Dabhol Power Company (DPC), today notified the company that they were terminating the work contracts.

As such, work on the 1,444 mw second phase of the Dabhol project has been suspended, the company said. Bechtel is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor while GE is the equipment supplier.

But a DPC spokesperson in Mumbai asserted that the two contractors are still with the project.